Question for Cladking, what 1965-1999 MS clad dimes are hard to find in gem?
SanctionII
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I looked through a roll of mixed clad dimes last night. They ranged from XF-AU to maybe MS 64. Lokking at them caused me to pull out some Whitman dime albums I filled from the mid 60's to the early 80's from circulation. Many MS examples are present.
I have asked you for information before about clad quarters. I thought the same information on clad dimes would be interesting. If not too much trouble, please give me and other forum members a rundown on MS clad dimes, including gems. Thanks, SanctionII.
P.S. All modern bashers should exit this thread immediately.
I have asked you for information before about clad quarters. I thought the same information on clad dimes would be interesting. If not too much trouble, please give me and other forum members a rundown on MS clad dimes, including gems. Thanks, SanctionII.
P.S. All modern bashers should exit this thread immediately.
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Cladking, where are you?
Cladking, where are you? Absent a reply, I may just have to PM you with the same question, thereby preventing the forum from receiving the benefit of your knowledge.
This one slipped by somehow.
I'm not extremely familiar with the dimes but the ones that are tougher in MS-65
would be '71, '75, & '82-P. The clad dimes are about as tough as the quarters in
very high grade for most dates though a few are common, but in MS-65 they tend
to be much easier. If you throw in the requirement for FB then they can get pretty
much impossible.
The dimes are a little more available by the roll, but roll coins tend to be even worse
than the quarters for most dates.
in order. These three are more on a percentage basis of raw coins than on an absolute ba-
sis. For instance the '69 isn't included despite being scarcer thjan the '71 and from a scarcer
mint set because the %age of gem '69's isn't terribly poor. By the same token the '83-D isn't
listed because lots of these you find are gems, there just aren't many you can find. Some of
the later dates from the '90's should probably be included but I'm even less familiar with these.
The '76 wasn't included because these appear nice in rolls sometimes and while rolls aren't
common, they do exist in small numbers. I don't know if they ever show up as gems in the rolls
or not but they most probably do.
The '82-D and '83-P are also reasonably available as gems but difficult to find at all.
Some of these are a little dependent on exactly where you draw the line for gem. If you move
it down a little then '74 and '81-P might make the list because so many have poor surfaces. The
'65-'67 exist in substantial numbers in rolls. These do appear as gems but if they can be disting-
uished from the SMS coins then they might even be added.
In higher grades there are very different keys for the series.
There are about 15 known '75 dimes without mintmarks, a dozen 1965 dimes made in silver,
there are also fairly scarce '68, '70, and '83 dimes with no mint mark. The '82 dime w/o mint
mark is quite scarce in MS-65 with probably no more than a few dozen in existence, if that.
Some people would include the '96-W dime with a mintage of only about 1,400,000 (lower than
the 1798 large cent), but this is actually quite common in gem because of the low attrition and
generally good quality. Most of the early regular issues are much scarcer in nice gem.
<< <i>Thanks for the information Cladking. Always nice to hear from you. >>
My pleasure. You're very welcome.