Good Morning.
Liked the Morgan Dollar question so much so I thought the same should be asked of Mercury Collectors.
What Date or Dates can you just not pass by with out Buying or at least Looking at when at Shows....Dealers Stores....Ebay or Other Places.
One other question might be What is the Date that You would almost Buy at any price for your Set ??
The 2 dates that I cannot pass by are 1916P and 1925P. Have owned upto 4 each of these Dates at the same time in the last year. Have a Real Weakness for them for some reason.
The most sought after Date is 1927S. If one comes up in the right grade I would probably loose all sense of restraint.
Dont be shy,throw some answers up.
Take Care: Ken
PS: We need to Re-Claim Our Forumn from all of these Modern Posts that have shown up.
Fairlaneman
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Not a coin I have oned multiples of but a coin I would really like to own is a 45-P with FB. Through the years I've bid on a couple of these but my budget has precluded actually winning one. The combination of rarity is FB and non-rarity in non-FB is, for some reason, intriguing to me. However, a bright shiny 45-P MS6?FB is a coin that occupies my thoughts.
By the way, on a different topic I think the way you have listed the source of each of your dimes is very neat. It's interesting to see from whom you have purchased the coins. In your case it seems to be from a lot of dealers. I'm going to start doing that for my coins and you'll see that my purchases are concentrated among a few dealers. Is there any particular reason you have bought from many dealers?
Mark
The dime that I look at the most is 16d in Fb.
This is my dream coin. I have bid on a few of them knowing I could not afford it but i bid anyway.
One day I will have one in my set.
Ray
My Dimes
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If it has a nice unique color, I don't care how many of that date/mm I have. If the price is reasonable, I have a hard time passing it up. If I have a "boring" white one in the same grade, the white one can go!
Regards,
Don
Sweetly Toned Winged Liberty and
When I was talking about Mulitples showing up thats what happened with My 23S. I found 3 at the same time. Same Grade and all with FB. The price range was $1200.00 to $1750.00. Being that I bought Sight Un-Seen I bet you can guess which one I bought.
Don: You and I are not Collectors. We are HOARDERS. Right now I have three 18S's that I just could not resist Buying.
Take Care: Ken
PS: Went out this Morning to 4 Coin Shops in the Portland area and found Exactly 0 Slabbed Mercury Dimes. Spent 5 hours and Drove about 150 miles.
Pat Vetter
Actually, I'd buy just about any date that I need for my set (except the '16-D), if it had the right "look", was priced reasonably, and I felt that it was unlikely that I'd find another anytime soon.
Ken, of all the "P" mints, I like the '25-P best too, and have owned 3 of them. I've always thought the '31-P was underrated as well, and have owned 5 of those. There seem to be an unusual number of '31-P's available right now, though. I've can't recall ever seeing more than a couple of '25-P's offered at the same time.
Jim