Roosevelt dime grades and Trueviews in! 1950-S mintmark question

planetsteve

I see I'm not the only one getting Roosies back from the silver dime promotion. I'm taking it slow with these, sending in just a couple at a time, to see how these get graded.

66FB. From a Whitman album. What is that inside the S mintmark? Images like these make it so much easier to find things I might overlook. Also note the die clash at the bridge of the nose.

67, also from a Whitman album. Best toner out of about a half dozen sets.

66FB, from an OBW. Much closer to how full bands should look, eh. (In all honesty I muttered "this'll be ugly FB" when I packed up that 50-S up there.)

MS65. I got this coin a decade ago when I handed a dealer at a coin show $50 for three magic beans a trio of 50s era toners, including two dimes and a cent.

davids5104

that 55-S is amazing!!! in fact let me know if you wish to part with it!!!

davids5104

This is an example of the known S/S for this date. Yours is not this, best I can tell. perhaps a die chip?

Namvet69

The clash of the leaves is kinda common IMO as I've got quite a few. I agree it kinda looks like the top curve of an S but without the bottom, me thinks it's a chip. Nice pics. Peace Roy

CoinJunkie

@davids5104 said:
that 55-S is amazing!!! in fact let me know if you wish to part with it!!!

Yeah, that may be the nicest Roosie graded MS65 I can recall seeing. Seems like a 66 on color alone!

The reverse of the OP's toned 1956 reminds me of one of my (several) Roosies of that date, also graded MS67:

ricko

Definitely appears to be a die chip on that '50S...Perhaps @DIMEMAN will stop by and confirm. Cheers, RickO

planetsteve

Thanks -- great stuff in these replies. The obverse of the 55-S is arresting; it literally stopped me as I was walking by. Over the years I had considered having it graded, but I thought those couple of shallow marks would limit the grade. I'll confess to having high hopes when I sent it in for the dime special; I haven't seen similar obv toning since, and I thought maybe I'd get a color bump.

It's still better off encapsulated, though. It just didn't play nice in a dime album page, where it was the only coin I would look at. Now it's cool to see it in coinfacts with the other toners.

Die chip totally makes sense. With @ricko encouraging me to look at mint marks in a previous thread, and the 6000x3000 images PCGS makes available, that S sure looked like something was going on with it. The only variety I see in Cherrypickers and Coinfacts is what PCGS calls an inverted S, and looks like what @davids5104 posted. Also good to know @Namvet69 that I should be able to find more die clashes.

@CoinJunkie yes, your coin has the same shades of color. Uncanny. Do you know if it was in a Whitman? The trend I've noticed is that the 50s Philly coins tone blue and and the D-mints have warmer colors.

DIMEMAN

@ricko said:
Definitely appears to be a die chip on that '50S...Perhaps @DIMEMAN will stop by and confirm. Cheers, RickO

That does look like a die chip on the 50-S.

CoinJunkie

@planetsteve said:

@CoinJunkie yes, your coin has the same shades of color. Uncanny. Do you know if it was in a Whitman? The trend I've noticed is that the 50s Philly coins tone blue and and the D-mints have warmer colors.

I bought the coin already slabbed, but always assumed it came out of a mint set. Those colors are quite common on 56p Roosies. Your cited trend above is definitely true for 1957 and 1958 dimes. For 1956, the Denver coins are actually much harder to find with color, while Philly coins often come like the ones we posted or even with true rainbow toning. But you are correct that blue generally appears far more often on the Philly silver coins (of all denominations) from the 1950s. Not entirely sure why that is, but perhaps someone here can explain it.