MS68FB Mercury Dime thread -- dust'em off boys and girls

mercurydimeguy

Hi All,

I've been slowly but sureley getting my Mercury Dimes photographed and posted to the Registry Set. It is actually a real neat experience since you get to spend a lot of time with each dime, trying to get the picture just right. Tonight I was taking pictures of some late date Merc's, which I have mostly in 67FB and one 68FB. I just realized how perfect my 68FB is -- at least in my eyes ... and how much better it REALLY is than most of my 67FB's, albeit 3-4 which might be candidates for upgrades.

Anyway, since there only a few hundred 68FB Mercury Dimes in the Pops, I thought it might be real neat to start a thread where people can post their 68FB dimes so everyone can enjoy them, and undoubtedly compare them

So I'll start -- here's mine

Description: This holder has a streak on the obverse running from the middle of miss liberty to the AW / the reverse of the holder is smudged in and around the mint mark area and the mid-lower portion of the fasces.



Regards,
Mike.

fcloud

Now you're just showing off.

I'd show one if I had one.

Oney

Nice dimes!

mercurydimeguy

Hey Tony, if I posted 14 of those guys maybe, but with one...

It's the only one I got...and I've seen about 18, or so in hand (in my life) and kind of have a feel for what they look like. I thought it would be really cool to have a look-see at some others. I'm real curious to see what makes each unique coin a 68FB.

I was just showing this coin to a few dealer friends at last Sunday's coin show -- it's funny but everyone examined it with their 10x looking to pick it apart, but after 30 seconds or so of looking said, "there's literally nothing wrong with this coin." I told them they were being too kind -- the luster could be completely uniterrupted

KentuckyJ

Purchased last year from DLRC


http://members.aol.com/puddncat/1940.jpg

In hand, very pretty

KJ

PQpeace

How about an ms69fb thread
Larry

mercurydimeguy

Now that's showing off, Larry

KJ -- that's a Pop 12 coin

LincolnCentMan

This is the only one I've got:



David

clackamas

I want one

Fairlaneman

Sorry, but I will still keep my MS70 coin under the covers. Maybe at a later date I will show it......

Ken

oreville

Kentucky3: That is a very strong set of crossbands you got on that coin! Congratulations!

The other dimes here look very nice too.

hiyosilver

<<I want one >>

PQpeace

You guys that want one
I have many for sale

jbsteven

i WOULD RATHER SEE A MS68 NO BAND THREAD.

Larry, post a pic of that one I sold you with the cool rim toning.

PQpeace

If I could figure out how to post pics without messing it up..I would post about 35 of these 68's and 1 69..

fcloud

Larry, figure it out so we can see those suckers!

David, Nice color on that 40-D!

You guys are ruining me. I used to only like white coins.

ajia

Larry, am I going to have to go over there & slap you silly 'til you remeber how to post pictures?

PQpeace

come on over..

I study coins at least 6 hours a day..
classic to modern..
I spend another 2 hours looking on the web for coins to buy and sell.

So after I work 8 hours a day,I go to coin college for another 8 hours...

When I finish that..maybe 11:30 at nite,I have time to post pics...
but by then,I am tired )