FWIW, the Hodson piece is back from NGC conservation AU-50 details, environmental damage" as before but now with the correct attribution.
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<< <i>I see the coin on eBay is still growing moss at the 10 grand asking price. Has even one sold anywhere yet? >>
The PCGS VG-8 that Bjorn had listed with a BIN at $7900 was "No longer available" about a week after it was relisted. I sent him a PM to see if it sold, but haven't heard back.
I think that is the closest to a sale so far. >>
FYI - The #3 coin Bjorn had that was on eBay has passed hands a few times, it's now listed on richuhrichcoins website (Incorrectly annotated as the discovery specimen - EDIT, Rich updated his listing now)
Based on the asking price there, and knowing there was a middle man, my guess is Bjorn sold it about 1/2 what he had it listed at, but still a decent sale I would think.
Pops are still the same at PCGS/NGC so I believe we're still at 8 known:
1) ANACS VF-20 - Discovery piece (StrikeOutXXX / Jeff Sam) 2) NCS AU-50 Details - Environmental Problems - Confirmation piece - Own inventory - John Hodson 3) PCGS VG-8 unattributed, then ANACS VG-8, back to PCGS VG-8 Attributed - Bulk over the counter B&M Purchase (KearneyCC / Bjorn Bergstrom) > Leo Frese > Rich Uhrich 4) ANACS EF-40 small show Portland, OR (Dealer folder unattributed) - (jtlee321/Justin) 5) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown 6) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown 7) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown 8) XF - Shown to Rick Snow in Baltimore 7/15 - No further details yet. 9) GET TO CHERRYPICKING!!!
Thanks for the update Jeff. I've been searching everywhere and nothing. I really think this variety is rarer than a lot of people think. I know it's not worth 10K but somewhere down in the mid 4 figure price I'd be very happy getting for mine. I just don't want to sell for too low and then kick my self when they finally hit the Cherrypickers' Guide and Redbook and start selling in the mid 4 figures. My gut it telling me that is where this will end up being. I don't think we will end up seeing an MS example anytime soon. I may be wrong, but I may be right as well.
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Ok folks. Jeff and I have been communicating with each other, and I have some information you have been waiting to hear. As you know, I have had an EF-40 example of the 1919 DDO listed on eBay. My listing was set at $9999.00 mostly to get attention for this variety and to not undercut Bjorn's asking price of $7900.00 for his VG-08 example. When my listing expired, I noticed that Bjorn's example had been taken down and listed as no longer available. I relisted my piece with an asking price of $7500.00. I received a few offers, but they were below the price I was comfortable with. About a week after I relisted, I did a Google search and found a blog looking for the newly discovered 1919 DDO. I contacted the person who had the blog which was part of a dealer website. The website is leofresecoins.com. Leo Frese was the VP at Heritage Auctions and is now an independent coin consultant and rare coin dealer. I contacted him and let him know that I had an example I was looking to sell. After I sent him an email I discovered on his site that he had previously bought and then sold the VG-08 example that Bjorn had owned and then was sold to Rich over at Richuhrichcoins.com.
Leo contacted me the next day about my dime. He was very interested in it. After a day or so we reached a price we both agreed upon. I asked him if I could disclose the price we agreed upon and how much he was in turn selling to his client. I explained to him that making the pricing information public would be beneficial to the market, he agreed. I asked him if he could disclose the transaction amounts on the VG-08 example, he told me he would let me know. Today he told me that I could let it be known that he sold the VG-08 example to Rich in the $4000.00 range. He would not give me an exact figure, but at least we have a range he sold it for. My example was purchased from me for $5250.00 and will be sold to his client for $5500.00. My feeling is that the VG-08 traded hands for as much as it did because it was believed to have been the discovery piece by Leo.
So as of now we have two examples that have been sold.
#1 PCGS VG-08 for around $4000 #2 ANACS EF-40 for $5250 and then $5500
As Arte Johnson used to say: "Verrrrrrry Interesting!"
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Kind of neat the first few are changing hands now. May be another one soon.
While nothing is set in stone, if by chance someone asked me today for rough values (with the expectation they will fluctuate) I think I would tell them:
G = $3,000 VG = $4,000 F = $4,500 VF = $5,000 XF = $6,000
Still no change in pop reports at PCGS/NGC, and no others reported that I know of.
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it looks like strong money for the first examples. As more appear they will most likely go down. I'm thinking 5K would have been a good number for a MS state coin. Time will tell, and I am sure more will be found. There are a couple really tough varieties in the Mercury Dime series, and some have come down quite a bit.
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<< <i>it looks like strong money for the first examples. As more appear they will most likely go down. I'm thinking 5K would have been a good number for a MS state coin. Time will tell, and I am sure more will be found. There are a couple really tough varieties in the Mercury Dime series, and some have come down quite a bit. >>
Sounds about right. Although a full bands example will be quite the monster some day.
<< <i>I'll admit that those prices are higher than I expected No experience with Mercs or discovery pieces. Just my gut feeling.
<< <i>My feeling is that the VG-08 traded hands for as much as it did because it was believed to have been the discovery piece by Leo. >>
Can anyone explain this? There shouldn't be any confusion about StrikeOutXXX's discovery coin.
I find the disclosure of the private transactions, interesting, slightly strange, and useful. >>
Yea, kind of strange, but seeing as these are the first ever sales of this variety, and so many people (and publishers) wondering/wanting to know/asking, seemed helpful.
3 have sold that we know of, all to Leo Frese, who had/has clients for these I believe. He made a blog post a few months back basically a "Wanted to Buy" ad for these and think he made his contacts to both buy and sell from that primarily.
I do not know the owner(s) of the 3 graded Good at NGC, or the XF example shown to Rick Show (Believe that is still in the certification process), but the other 4 were all reported directly or second-hand through the forums, so those were easier to track. Plus, Leo has been cool letting the numbers be known, he is afterall making the market on them I suppose. He even wrote a story for CoinWeek about selling the first one here: http://www.coinweek.com/coins/error-coins/us-coins-leo-frese-reports-sale-of-recently-discovered-1919-double-die-coin/
I don't know the whole story on the discovery coin - Rich Uhrich contacted me and said he had purchased the VG-08 from Leo, and had it listed on his website if I was interested (Think he read a post a few weeks back of mine inside the thread thinking I was looking for one and wasn't aware I was the OP on this coin/thread). When I saw his listing, I PMd him back saying his listing was a little incorrect, that I still had the discovery coin with me, it was my pictures and coin on the Coin World cover, etc. He quickly edited his listing though once he found out - Kudos for that. Rich said that's how Leo presented it to him, and I believe Leo also believed this to be true when he bought the coin from Bjorn. Not sure how the mix-up in translation went, Bjorn had the first certified by PCGS (still the only one) so maybe something got mixed up in terminology there, but don't care to speculate further on that one. Within a few days of the first sale though, I think everybody figured everything out.
It's the weekend, folks! Let's get out there and cherrypick!
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Oh, I have made some mistakes in my life that made he ask myself
"Self, WTF were you thinking? Or not thinking?"
Nobody is perfrekt.
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Just checking pop reports, and I see PCGS has an XF40 now in the report.
Rick Snow - Can you ask your friend who showed you the raw coin in Baltimore if that is his coin (#8)? I guess it is also possible that Leo Frese crossed the ANACS EF-40 coin over as well.
Unless the PCGS-40 coin is a new discovery, I believe we are still at 9 known examples!
1) ANACS VF-20 - Discovery piece (StrikeOutXXX / Jeff Sam)
2) NCS AU-50 Details - Environmental Problems - Confirmation piece - Own inventory - John Hodson
3) PCGS VG-8 unattributed, then ANACS VG-8, back to PCGS VG-8 Attributed - Bulk over the counter B&M Purchase (KearneyCC / Bjorn Bergstrom) > Leo Frese > Rich Uhrich
4) ANACS EF-40 small show Portland, OR (Dealer folder unattributed) - (jtlee321/Justin) > Leo Frese
5) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
6) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
7) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
8) XF - Shown to Rick Snow in Baltimore 7/15 - No further details yet.
9) AG Details - Damaged - Roll searching, Alan Davis -Cointalk forums.
Congratulations to Natchez14 over on the NGC Forums for the latest find.
I try to update the 1st post (New software seems to format it kind of cruddy, but)
1) ANACS VF-20 - Discovery piece (StrikeOutXXX / Jeff Sam) > Leo Frese
2) NCS AU-50 Details - Environmental Problems - Confirmation piece - Own inventory - John Hodson
3) PCGS VG-8 unattributed, then ANACS VG-8, back to PCGS VG-8 Attributed - Bulk over the counter B&M Purchase (KearneyCC / Bjorn Bergstrom) > Leo Frese > Rich Uhrich
4) ANACS EF-40 > PCGS XF-40 - small show Portland, OR (Dealer folder unattributed) - (jtlee321/Justin) > Leo Frese > ? > Great Collections
5) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
6) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
7) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
8) XF - Shown to Rick Snow in Baltimore 7/15
9) AG Details - Damaged - Roll searching, Alan Davis -Cointalk forums
10) Good - 90% merc bag find - Natchez14 - (NGC Message Boards)
FYI - Ian Russell let me know the PCGS XF-40 was crossed from the ANACS EF-40 (Coin #4) and will be going through Great Collections soon.
Any background on where #10 was located? More to the point, has anyone scored one of these unattributed from an online auction site yet?
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Originally posted by: seanq Any background on where #10 was located? More to the point, has anyone scored one of these unattributed from an online auction site yet?
Sean Reynolds
He posted on the Coin Community Board (as well as the NGC) that he found it in a 90% Merc Bag.
As far as I know, nobody has got one unattributed from an online auction (From a dealer's folder, yes - not online) - but the world is big, I only keep up with the Pop reports, and 4 different forums. I'm sure there are more, and anything is possible, but those 10 are all that's known & confirmed to me.
I still look at newly listed 1919 Mercs (And judging by the views, only about 5-10 others do as well) so who knows what will be found.
FYI - Ian Russell let me know the PCGS XF-40 was crossed from the ANACS EF-40 (Coin #4) and will be going through Great Collections soon.
Sweet Mother!
That coin already traded hands for a healthy sum. It sure would be nice to see it go in a TRUE auction that starts at $1 but I am guessing the consignor will protect themselves with a high starting bid. We will see.
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FYI - Ian Russell let me know the PCGS XF-40 was crossed from the ANACS EF-40 (Coin #4) and will be going through Great Collections soon.
Sweet Mother! That coin already traded hands for a healthy sum. It sure would be nice to see it go in a TRUE auction that starts at $1 but I am guessing the consignor will protect themselves with a high starting bid. We will see.
I'm guessing between you, DimeMan, & Fcloud, they have a built-in reserve already ;-)
I would certainly be brave enough to start the bidding at $1. Dimeman might take it to $2 and then fcloud might come out of retirement and place a $3 or $4 bid on it?
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Originally posted by: keyman64 I would certainly be brave enough to start the bidding at $1. Dimeman might take it to $2 and then fcloud might come out of retirement and place a $3 or $4 bid on it?
Oh, I think I would bid...
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I think it's really cool that so many collectors are pumped up about a coin as ubiquitous as a 1919 dime.
Just proves that you will never find anything "new" if you don't look, and, certainly many more interesting varieties hiding in plain sight are just waiting to be found and publicized.
It certainly wouldn't surprise me if relatively "big" doubled dies were to be found in modern coins with huge mintages, for example a 1965 dime or similar coin.
How many of us scrutinize the reverse of 1965 dimes?
Or 1974 quarters?
Just throwing out a hypothetical here.
Sometimes it might be beneficial to be a contrarian and search coins that perhaps very few people are thinking about.
I wonder if an Uncirculated piece will ever be found?
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<< <i>I see the coin on eBay is still growing moss at the 10 grand asking price. Has even one sold anywhere yet? >>
The PCGS VG-8 that Bjorn had listed with a BIN at $7900 was "No longer available" about a week after it was relisted. I sent him a PM to see if it sold, but haven't heard back.
I think that is the closest to a sale so far. >>
FYI - The #3 coin Bjorn had that was on eBay has passed hands a few times, it's now listed on richuhrichcoins website (Incorrectly annotated as the discovery specimen - EDIT, Rich updated his listing now)
Based on the asking price there, and knowing there was a middle man, my guess is Bjorn sold it about 1/2 what he had it listed at, but still a decent sale I would think.
Pops are still the same at PCGS/NGC so I believe we're still at 8 known:
1) ANACS VF-20 - Discovery piece (StrikeOutXXX / Jeff Sam)
2) NCS AU-50 Details - Environmental Problems - Confirmation piece - Own inventory - John Hodson
3) PCGS VG-8 unattributed, then ANACS VG-8, back to PCGS VG-8 Attributed - Bulk over the counter B&M Purchase (KearneyCC / Bjorn Bergstrom) > Leo Frese > Rich Uhrich
4) ANACS EF-40 small show Portland, OR (Dealer folder unattributed) - (jtlee321/Justin)
5) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
6) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
7) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
8) XF - Shown to Rick Snow in Baltimore 7/15 - No further details yet.
9) GET TO CHERRYPICKING!!!
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Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
Leo contacted me the next day about my dime. He was very interested in it. After a day or so we reached a price we both agreed upon. I asked him if I could disclose the price we agreed upon and how much he was in turn selling to his client. I explained to him that making the pricing information public would be beneficial to the market, he agreed. I asked him if he could disclose the transaction amounts on the VG-08 example, he told me he would let me know. Today he told me that I could let it be known that he sold the VG-08 example to Rich in the $4000.00 range. He would not give me an exact figure, but at least we have a range he sold it for. My example was purchased from me for $5250.00 and will be sold to his client for $5500.00. My feeling is that the VG-08 traded hands for as much as it did because it was believed to have been the discovery piece by Leo.
So as of now we have two examples that have been sold.
#1 PCGS VG-08 for around $4000
#2 ANACS EF-40 for $5250 and then $5500
Now get out there and find more!!
While nothing is set in stone, if by chance someone asked me today for rough values (with the expectation they will fluctuate) I think I would tell them:
G = $3,000
VG = $4,000
F = $4,500
VF = $5,000
XF = $6,000
Still no change in pop reports at PCGS/NGC, and no others reported that I know of.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
Now if I could only find a few of these silly things.
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<< <i>it looks like strong money for the first examples. As more appear they will most likely go down. I'm thinking 5K would have been a good number for a MS state coin. Time will tell, and I am sure more will be found. There are a couple really tough varieties in the Mercury Dime series, and some have come down quite a bit. >>
Sounds about right. Although a full bands example will be quite the monster some day.
No experience with Mercs or discovery pieces. Just my gut feeling.
<< <i>My feeling is that the VG-08 traded hands for as much as it did because it was believed to have been the discovery piece by Leo. >>
Can anyone explain this? There shouldn't be any confusion about StrikeOutXXX's discovery coin.
I find the disclosure of the private transactions, interesting, slightly strange, and useful.
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<< <i>I'll admit that those prices are higher than I expected
No experience with Mercs or discovery pieces. Just my gut feeling.
<< <i>My feeling is that the VG-08 traded hands for as much as it did because it was believed to have been the discovery piece by Leo. >>
Can anyone explain this? There shouldn't be any confusion about StrikeOutXXX's discovery coin.
I find the disclosure of the private transactions, interesting, slightly strange, and useful. >>
Yea, kind of strange, but seeing as these are the first ever sales of this variety, and so many people (and publishers) wondering/wanting to know/asking, seemed helpful.
3 have sold that we know of, all to Leo Frese, who had/has clients for these I believe. He made a blog post a few months back basically a "Wanted to Buy" ad for these and think he made his contacts to both buy and sell from that primarily.
I do not know the owner(s) of the 3 graded Good at NGC, or the XF example shown to Rick Show (Believe that is still in the certification process), but the other 4 were all reported directly or second-hand through the forums, so those were easier to track. Plus, Leo has been cool letting the numbers be known, he is afterall making the market on them I suppose. He even wrote a story for CoinWeek about selling the first one here: http://www.coinweek.com/coins/error-coins/us-coins-leo-frese-reports-sale-of-recently-discovered-1919-double-die-coin/
I don't know the whole story on the discovery coin - Rich Uhrich contacted me and said he had purchased the VG-08 from Leo, and had it listed on his website if I was interested (Think he read a post a few weeks back of mine inside the thread thinking I was looking for one and wasn't aware I was the OP on this coin/thread). When I saw his listing, I PMd him back saying his listing was a little incorrect, that I still had the discovery coin with me, it was my pictures and coin on the Coin World cover, etc. He quickly edited his listing though once he found out - Kudos for that. Rich said that's how Leo presented it to him, and I believe Leo also believed this to be true when he bought the coin from Bjorn. Not sure how the mix-up in translation went, Bjorn had the first certified by PCGS (still the only one) so maybe something got mixed up in terminology there, but don't care to speculate further on that one. Within a few days of the first sale though, I think everybody figured everything out.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
Looks to be an AG example, but only a close-up has been posted so not sure yet on exact grade.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
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Nobody is perfrekt.
Edit for below - called it "AG Details - Damaged" in the census.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
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Rick Snow - Can you ask your friend who showed you the raw coin in Baltimore if that is his coin (#8)? I guess it is also possible that Leo Frese crossed the ANACS EF-40 coin over as well.
Unless the PCGS-40 coin is a new discovery, I believe we are still at 9 known examples!
1) ANACS VF-20 - Discovery piece (StrikeOutXXX / Jeff Sam)
2) NCS AU-50 Details - Environmental Problems - Confirmation piece - Own inventory - John Hodson
3) PCGS VG-8 unattributed, then ANACS VG-8, back to PCGS VG-8 Attributed - Bulk over the counter B&M Purchase (KearneyCC / Bjorn Bergstrom) > Leo Frese > Rich Uhrich
4) ANACS EF-40 small show Portland, OR (Dealer folder unattributed) - (jtlee321/Justin) > Leo Frese
5) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
6) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
7) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
8) XF - Shown to Rick Snow in Baltimore 7/15 - No further details yet.
9) AG Details - Damaged - Roll searching, Alan Davis -Cointalk forums.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
Congratulations to Natchez14 over on the NGC Forums for the latest find.
I try to update the 1st post (New software seems to format it kind of cruddy, but)
1) ANACS VF-20 - Discovery piece (StrikeOutXXX / Jeff Sam) > Leo Frese
2) NCS AU-50 Details - Environmental Problems - Confirmation piece - Own inventory - John Hodson
3) PCGS VG-8 unattributed, then ANACS VG-8, back to PCGS VG-8 Attributed - Bulk over the counter B&M Purchase (KearneyCC / Bjorn Bergstrom) > Leo Frese > Rich Uhrich
4) ANACS EF-40 > PCGS XF-40 - small show Portland, OR (Dealer folder unattributed) - (jtlee321/Justin) > Leo Frese > ? > Great Collections
5) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
6) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
7) NGC - Good - Owner Unknown
8) XF - Shown to Rick Snow in Baltimore 7/15
9) AG Details - Damaged - Roll searching, Alan Davis -Cointalk forums
10) Good - 90% merc bag find - Natchez14 - (NGC Message Boards)
FYI - Ian Russell let me know the PCGS XF-40 was crossed from the ANACS EF-40 (Coin #4) and will be going through Great Collections soon.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
Any background on where #10 was located? More to the point, has anyone scored one of these unattributed from an online auction site yet?
Sean Reynolds
He posted on the Coin Community Board (as well as the NGC) that he found it in a 90% Merc Bag.
As far as I know, nobody has got one unattributed from an online auction (From a dealer's folder, yes - not online) - but the world is big, I only keep up with the Pop reports, and 4 different forums. I'm sure there are more, and anything is possible, but those 10 are all that's known & confirmed to me.
I still look at newly listed 1919 Mercs (And judging by the views, only about 5-10 others do as well) so who knows what will be found.
"You Suck Award" - February, 2015
Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
FYI - Ian Russell let me know the PCGS XF-40 was crossed from the ANACS EF-40 (Coin #4) and will be going through Great Collections soon.
Sweet Mother!
That coin already traded hands for a healthy sum. It sure would be nice to see it go in a TRUE auction that starts at $1 but I am guessing the consignor will protect themselves with a high starting bid. We will see.
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
FYI - Ian Russell let me know the PCGS XF-40 was crossed from the ANACS EF-40 (Coin #4) and will be going through Great Collections soon.
Sweet Mother!
That coin already traded hands for a healthy sum. It sure would be nice to see it go in a TRUE auction that starts at $1 but I am guessing the consignor will protect themselves with a high starting bid. We will see.
I'm guessing between you, DimeMan, & Fcloud, they have a built-in reserve already ;-)
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Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
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Also, it might have something to do with this being a major/newly discovered
variety that will be in the next Red Book...and because of the demand and
because it's cool and a couple have already sold for strong money and....
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I would certainly be brave enough to start the bidding at $1. Dimeman might take it to $2 and then fcloud might come out of retirement and place a $3 or $4 bid on it?
Oh, I think I would bid...
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Just proves that you will never find anything "new" if you don't look, and, certainly many more interesting varieties hiding in plain sight are just waiting to be found and publicized.
It certainly wouldn't surprise me if relatively "big" doubled dies were to be found in modern coins with huge mintages, for example a 1965 dime or similar coin.
How many of us scrutinize the reverse of 1965 dimes?
Or 1974 quarters?
Just throwing out a hypothetical here.
Sometimes it might be beneficial to be a contrarian and search coins that perhaps very few people are thinking about.
I wonder if an Uncirculated piece will ever be found?
Been quietly working on it but have not had any luck as of yet. I will honestly post here first if I find one.
Granted, not as many people search for that as there will be people searching for the 1919.
I'd like to think it's possible.
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Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.