1916 Mercury dime with antique original toning.....
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1916 Mercury dime with antique original toning.....
now on the way to me here in Ohio from Texas.....
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Beautiful
Beautiful dime. Looks like Full Bands?
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Nice one!
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Excellent looking Merc. Congrats on that pick!
I like the looks of that. congrats on the nice score
Holy guacamole, that's stupendous.
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66+ a beauty. If it had luster:)
Let us know how it is once you get it.
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Nice dime, that has a wonderful look to it.
Is it real?
bob
Boy I hope the counterfieters haven't got that good!
Please let me know what you think about the coin after you receive it. From the pictures it looks like a nice AU merc to me.
Thanks.
Ken
Kind of reminds me of the dime on the cover of David Lange’s book "The Complete Guide to Mercury dimes".
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Very nice! Looks like one of the early prices made in October 1916 - note details on the olive branch upper surface. The only comparable example I've seen is in the Smithsonian NNC.
Purty
Stunning image. OP, did you buy at AU or BU level?
That's a gorgeous example. Congrats!
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That'll do nicely.
What they all said x 2.
And that is how a AU silver coin should look. Perfect!
That's EXACTLY what 100 year old 90% silver should look like. Very nice indeed.
Dave
Perused their ebay site. Lot of raw coins but a good feedback rating. This Columbian reminded me of your Mercury.
So when you're done looking at it, you can send it to me.
Mine.
beautiful color, fantastic!!!
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That is a really nice Mercury Dime.... I hope it looks just like that in hand...Please let us know what it is like when you receive it. Cheers, RickO
I thought the same thing. It almost looks too good and reminds me of the 1933-S Half that has been discussed on this forum.
@291fifth The look had me thinking Chinese but then I too though about that half......can't wait to see it graded.
bob
BOB -- If by graded you mean sent into NGC or PCGS that is not an option. Would rather put it into a Coin World holder!!
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The OP's dime is real. We don't see many because such detail only lasted for a few hundred strikes out of 400,000; and the coins went into circulation. The best chance of finding more is among the Estate of a Treasury Department employee during late 1916 - particularly from the Treasurer's Office.
Roger you have lost me on your 2 statements about this dime. 16P's are well known for their strong strike. Here are some that I own right now.
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Ken
I LIKE IT!!!!!
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Wow - I love the coin and the photos both!
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RE: "Roger you have lost me on your 2 statements about this dime. 16P's are well known for their strong strike. Here are some that I own right now."
Yes, overall 1916 detail is much better than later years; however, I was referring to the finest high point detail which appears to be uniform on the OP's coin.
Sharp looking!
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Roger
You have a couple of typos in this post, prices is pieces but I do not understand “Smithsonian NNC” Where is that,
DC or New York city or some where else?
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I respectfully differ with part of Roger’s statement above.
I do not think more than a few dimes where struck from the die pair that produced this coin. Otherwise we would have seen more of them by now. Not thousands, or even hundreds, or even a few tens were produced by this die pair!! But as Roger said I certainly do think that you would have had a chance of finding a specimen of this coin amongst the estate of a some Treasury department employee or employees. They tended to save stuff like this, when they could get their hands on them, just as John Sinnock did in the 1930ies and for reasons that should be obvious.
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Love that look.
"Smithsonian NNC" = Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection, Washington, DC
Absent other pieces from the same die pair it is impossible to estimate - even wildly - the quantity of pieces made. However, the fine detail present in new dies vanishes at about the same time, and for the same reasons, as luster develops. A large number of dies (1,821 for FY ending June 30, 1917 of which approximately 28.5%, or 519, were 1916) were used for 1916 dimes and any new pair would have made a few hundred pieces similar to the OP's. That is simply life in the world of metallurgy that defined US Mints.
The estimated quantity of "full detail" dimes would have been 52,000, and the percentage of 1916 mintage equals 0.16%. One could not expect to see any coins similar to the OP's unless examining thousands of new coins - and after 100+ years....?
"519, were 1916) were used for 1916 dimes” as per RogerB above.
I have only seen one other dime like this going back to 1986 and I would have thought to have seen many more if
some of each of the 1916 dies had produced coins like this.
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What am I missing, strike wise, on this dime? Please tell me.
Thanks.
Ken
This would make a great companion piece to this 1916 Mercury dime, just ran across while perusing eBay.
Looks like they spent a lot of time together in the same place over the years.
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just pulled the coin from my mail box.
Just as nice in hand as the pictures. A real treasure!
Thanks to all who contributed to this thread.
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I'd like to see that next time I see ya.
Love it. I Just love it.
Whole lot of speculation going on in this thread. I hope people apply more scientific process to their research than exhibited in the silly snap judgments from a blow up picture of something that is really the size of a dime.
Toning plays tricks on details as does selective photography and “that die pair” is indeterminable based off of those pictures. The (1916)s were struck in greater relief than the rest of the series and the OP most likely has convinced him self it is a proof like he has with so many other circulation strike coins. I am not saying it isn’t, I just don’t personally believe in magic or snap judgments let alone making up stories without evidence.
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Photo of my proof struck from the very first dies, plucked form the estate of a high ranking mint employee
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No words...………
Well maybe one word, MY KINDA COIN!
SPECULATION AS TO WHAT? No one in this thread including myself has suggested that it is anything but a business strike.
I have not suggested to anyone that this is anything except an exceptional business strike, either in this thread or via PM on the side.
In fact CRYPTO is the only “contributor” who has used the word “proof” in this thread. I would call his comments out of line and personally demeaning (to him).
Says Crypto -- "I just don’t personally believe in magic or snap judgments let alone making up stories without evidence.”
Crypto is the only one here who has done this and as such he has made a total abject fool out of himself with no one except him making any such unsubstantiated and unattributed misjudgments/comments as he has outlined in his posts above.
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