Does this Merc look like a knife job?

sliderider

Highly detailed Merc.

Bear

For that kind of money I would NOT bite at the apple.

Too many glued on mint marks, split band surgeries

and playing with the dimes. I always worry when sellers

say coins could be, should be, probably will be. Stick with 1st tier

slabbing services as PCGS and NGC.

sliderider

For those too lazy to look, here's the pic that causes me concern.



Look at the feathers and the hair. Somehow it looks too bold and well struck to be real.

earlwbollinger

Well to me, the face and neck look like a weak strike, but like you noticed the hair and cap look too good and too well struck.

Fairlaneman

Issues from 1920 do come with struck up hair and feather definition like the coin shown. I doubt if the coin has been played with. What is strange is that if this coin does not have some other problem it most likely would be in a slab from either PCGS or NGC. This is one of the dates in the Merc series that is just plain tough to find in Full Bands without problems.

Attached is a 20P that was owned to show you how well this date can be struck in the hair and feathers.



Ken

291fifth

Photos are too poor to make any judgement. It's raw...it shouldn't be. Pass.

1956Quarter

Dunno, but someone needs to take a knife abd lance that mole off her nose.....

skier07

That lady needs to see a deramatolgist. That mole might be a melanoma. Why does the coin
look brown?

Bruce