1945-S Mercury dime with neat toning

CarlWohlforth

I once had a 1945-S in NGC 68 with cool toning. The memorable thing was the fasces wasn't toned. I decided to forget about Mercs and concentrate on my type set. I sold it.

Later I saw some others and then folks talked about them here. From what I gathered somebody had a bunch of high quality, not full band, 1945-S Mercury dimes that were all toned like that. They sent them in to NGC and most came back 67 with some 66s and 68s.

Well I've been bitten by the toning bug since I sold mine. I regretted selling mine. I started looking and they come up on eBay every once in a while. I snagged one. I'll link in some photos.

Can anybody add to the story? It would be neat to find out more about where these came from, how they got toned like this and so on...

LucyBop

Beautiful Winged Liberty!!!

coinkat

Really nice...

izzy452

Cool Toning on that Merc Carl. Best I've seen in a long time.


Walt

wingedliberty

45-S dimes come in great quality with superb toning. I love yours.
Here is one I recently got off Ebay.

1945-S 10c NGC-MS67 Green and blue.


I am really glad you came back to the Mercs.
Welcome back home


Brian

Blade

I've posted this several times, but can't help it - it's still one of my favorites (NGC MS68). Carl - I love the obverse color on yours.





I heard that these were a result of 50 years in a "Save-a-Dime" folders. These were put out by Savings & Loans for youngsters to save their change and take to the bank. I remember having some in the early 1970's. They don't look much different than the Whitman holders but must have had some sulfer in the paper. I guess someone put a bunch of new dimes in these folders long ago. 10 cents + 50 years = $200 per coin. Not a bad investment.

stman

Here is another one. I think TomB has some good info on these.

Edit to add.... This is also a 45s graded ms68 by NGC. I didn't mess with posting the obv since these are mainly about the unique reverse.

CarlWohlforth

Yup, those are the ones! I got lucky as the auction photos weren't as good as the coin. Thanks for the nice comments!

I did pay 5 times the great price WingedLiberty paid for his eBay snag. Thanks for welcoming me back to Mercury dimes Brian! However I am still a type collector rather than a Mercury dime collector. With my blue proof and this MS one I am done

If all save-a-dime folders toned coins this way wouldn't there be more different dates and a larger range of grades? I have only seen these from 1945-S in NGC 67 and 68.