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Ten cents. It's either plated or has been exposed to heat / chemicals that changed its color. As such it's considered to be an altered coin and has no extra numismatic value.
Assuming you have a gold-colored "Loonie" coin, it's only worth face value. Like the Sacagawea and Presidential dollars in this country, it's not made of gold. 1990 Loonies are made of nickel plated with a gold-colored brass alloy.
U.S. dimes have never been made of gold, nor were there any gold coins minted in the 1960s. What you have is a gold-plated dime, not worth anything to collectors above face value.
Some coins do tone to a gold color or it may have been plated but it's not gold. So just spend it.
It is gold plated and therefore is only worth what a normal (damaged) 1941 dime is worth, which is about $2.20 or so in scrap silver.
Ten cents. It's not gold, it's been plated for use in jewelry or something similar. There's never been a gold dime.
$2.00 for the silver under the gold, the plating destroyed any collectible value the may have had.
If you think about it for, oh, 20 seconds or so, why would even the most boneheaded gov't functionary authorize the minting of a dime in gold, so that the Mint would lose about $200 on each one they made? You have an ordinary dime that's been plated for use in jewelry or similar. It's worth 10 cents.
This did not come from the mint like that. It has to be gold plated. No collector value.
The U.S. has never struck a gold dime. A coin that size made of gold would be worth many times more than 10 cents. Your coin is an ordinary silver dime that was plated for use in jewelry or something similar. As such it's only worth its melt value, about $2 as of early 2011.
Its only 10 cents.
Dimes have never been made of gold. Perhaps your coin was gold plated. There's no specific value for it, so it's only worth as much as someone will pay.