How rare are 42/41 Mercs?

RickMilauskas

Just curious about how rare 42/41 & 42/41 D Mercury dimes are. Most of the "complete" Mercury dime sets I've seen for sale do not include them. Anyone have "guestimates' on mintages??

Wondo

PCGS has slabbeb 454 of them so far (82 FSB).

mercurydimeguy

For some reason the following orders of magnitude stick out in my mind:

The 42/1 -- there are 1000's

The 42/1-D -- there are 10's of 1000's

Ironically, I typically see more of these overdates trade hands than nicely graded Merc's, some of which are in the 100's order of magnitude.

Manorcourtman

Not sure but I advise everyone to never buy a raw one on ebay w/o a return policy from the buyer. I have seen several examples in hand that are supposed BU examples that look like they were buffed or wizzed with a wire brush. A very cool coin that has been cleaned in many, many cases.

JrGMan2004

Just got back from a show... saw about a dozen '16-Ds, a few 21s and 21-Ps, but didn't see any 42/41s...

fcloud

There is one die of each Philly and Denver. I don't know the die life. Lets look at some other numbers...

1916 D has four die sets and those four dies produced 264,000 coins. Based on that info the average 1916-D Die produced about 66,000 coins.

I would guess that there are no more than 100,000 of each Philly or Denver, but there is no way of knowing the exact number.

jdimmick

even in this local area, you see 42 /41 dimes come in quite regularly. Most are in the F / Vf range?

jim

BigE

No one knew about these for quite some time after they were issued, thats why there is so many circ. ones, at tleast that's what I heard---------------BigE