Looking for a 1916-d Mercury dime from the “Subway Hoard”

Tomthemailcarrier

Does anyone know where to find graded examples of 16-d with Subway Hoard provenance?

WAYNEAS

Another history lesson for me.
Thanks
Wayne

lkenefic

I thought I had read about all of the major Hoards over the years, but this one was news to me too!

Thanks for sharing!

nwcoast

I have not heard of it and it’s an interesting story.
Thanks for sharing.
As an inquiry, I might suggest the obvious and that interested parties contact Littleton Coin company directly.
They have a pretty active sales department with enthusiastic representatives.
This, if cursory directed web searches yielded nothing.

Tibor

The hoard was big news in the 90s. I bought one of the 42/41 mercs. Wish I had kept it.

TomB

I remember the purchase and distribution of this hoard. However, I don't know that Littleton marked their plastic baggies with any notation that the coins inside came from the hoard. Therefore, it may be impossible to track these down.

Walkerguy21D

I remember this event also, but don’t recall ever seeing anything attributed to it.
I do remember seeing mid-grade over date and low grade 16D Mercury dimes becoming almost common in dealer cases not long afterward.

CoinCoins

imagine sitting down with 100,000 half dollars from before 1836

CoinCoins

jesus that hoard had a ton of incredible stuff

https://www.littletoncoin.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Display|10001|29555|-1||LearnNav|Learning-From-the-New-York-Subway-Hoard.html

1901 S 25c x 8
1913 S 25c x 20
1916 25c x 19
1912 S 5c x 160
1918/17 5c x 29

koynekwest

The fact that 29 18/17 Buffs were found is not a huge surprise to me for several reasons. First, that die variety had considerably more than a full die run, as evidenced by this coin, which was minted far past the useful life of the die. It is in no way rare in grades AG-VG. I cherried more than half a dozen in the early to mid sixties, including a VF.

When I first started collecting in 1961 this area-Northeast Ohio-was serviced mainly by the Denver Mint. To find Denver Mint coins in NYC was probably not that unusual. Back in the forties few collectors paid any attention to varieties such as overdates so they were not saved. Add that to the fact that this overdate is easily identifiable even with a very small portion of the date visible (if you know what to look for) and that explains it, at least to me.

moursund

If you get a Subway 1916 d dime, you have to wonder if there's any tuna in that mercury

ricko

I still do not know why it was called the 'subway hoard'..... Guess I will have to do some google research. Cheers, RickO

Tibor

The collection was put together over several years by 2 or 3 people that worked for the New York city transportation authority. The coins were for the most part in vg to xf condition. Even though for some of the rare dates, ie. 16 d merc, the coins were quickly absorbed by the collecting community. It was put together in the 40s through the early 60's.

moursund

@Tibor said:
The collection was put together over several years by 2 or 3 people that worked for the New York city transportation authority. The coins were for the most part in vg to xf condition. Even though for some of the rare dates, ie. 16 d merc, the coins were quickly absorbed by the collecting community. It was put together in the 40s through the early 60's.

Presumably the coins were all collected from the subway turn styles?

Treashunt

@ricko said:
I still do not know why it was called the 'subway hoard'..... Guess I will have to do some google research. Cheers, RickO

It is called that because the collection was from a worker at a NYC token booth.

Tibor

From the articles of this hoard, the employee (s) were in the cash room for the transit authority. I'm guessing as the money was brought in from various subway stations and other sources they did their "CRH ".

WAYNEAS

A very early Coin Roll search.
Wayne

BuffaloIronTail

The number of finds boggles the imagination.......................

Pete

Jetstream

Icollecteverything

I worked for a construction company that often did work for the MTA in the city. My boss told me a story about a rehab that they had done before I was with the company. Part of the job was the removal of a ticket booth and there must have been a crack or seam on the ticket counter because when they took out the wall under the counter they found a big handful of mostly Buffalo nickels and also a couple large size notes in between the walls. I always miss the good stuff.

ricko

@Treashunt .... Thank you... I figured it may have been something like that, but did not know for sure. Cheers, RickO