Ever get tired and try to make your own coin?

Dimetime

How many of you have gotten tired of looking for a certain coin and decided to find one and submit it just to see what you get. Seems like a good test of our grading abilities. I getting this 1916 Mercury and will submit it to see what it gets. Looks to be a good strike, possible nick on neck( I hope not). Seller has excellent feedback. Guess the grade and I'll post as soon as I get it back. Leave a little explaination as to why you grade it that. Thanks1916 Dime

tsacch

MS63fsb, reason, the bands look full, and cause its a guess???.......i dont know the series much, but who knows, could go au58 fsb or 63.

mbbiker

That is a really sweet coin i think you have a great chance at making a 65FSB. That line on the neck looks like the start of a die crack. the pics are hard to grade from but from whats there i don't see any reason you shouldn't get that grade. Lets just hope it's not cleaned or tooled. Great find!!

nwcs

Sure have! And I have spent a lot of money at the slabbers. Now I'm scaling back and taking a whole new approach. Essentially, I'm being patient.

Dimetime

NW, what was your success rate? Any opinion on this dime?

wingedliberty

tsacch is 100% correct. 63FSB max, mushy strike, multiple hits on the fasces.
My penetration rate with the big three grading services is about 80% accurate and I have submitted
thousands of coins. I would not send the coin in, 1916 Mercs come in great quality and you should
not have a problem finding a quality example.

Brian.

nwcs

I think the dime looks great! If the bands hold up as well as the pic suggests, looks to be a very nice pickup for the price.

As for my success... Well the coins I tried to make have been big time (or almost big time) toners. So far I've got 3 made and 1 was questionable toning. 4 waiting right now. The best of the ones I've made is a 1923 MS64 peace with a redbrown-gold toning over 90% of the obv. In the shipment waiting right now are two '55 frankies with red toning on one side and steel-blue on the other. Both with booming luster.

Neil

sinin1

With the BIN price, it seems the dealer does not feel this coin is MS64FB or the would have had a higher BIN. The picture sure looks full bands - maybe they screwed up and you got a great deal - hope so.

PS - you didn't say how you were going to make the coin you needed - are you going to glue on a D?

Dimetime

I got the 16-d in AU55. That will have to do for awhile. Just need to upgrade the more common dates. Unfortunatly, my Merc PR registry set has reduced my funds a little. I just think it'll be fun to try a few submissions and see how good my grading abilities are.