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What is going on with this dime?
ChrisH821
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The rim looks strange. You would expect a FB coin to have a nice full rim so I assume some sort of PMD? It's on both sides though..
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Looks mint made and probably not PMD. Sharp interiors on a coin don't guarantee sharp peripherals. I've seen a fair number of choice and gem Barber and Seated dimes with rims like this....often obliterating the denticles.
Too bad that is not a DDO!
Possibly struck on a type 1 planchet (blank), or a poorly upset planchet.
Definitely gives it a strange look.... other than that, a nice Merc.... Cheers, RickO
It certainly looks like a broad struck coin;
if so, it's very strange that it wasn't mentioned
whatsoever in the listing description.
What FredWeinberg stated. I see no reeds on the edge.
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I don't think a lot of the collecting or even dealer community is that aware of what broad struck coins are.
I think I can see reeding on the edge around 4 o'clock. I am leaning towards GoldenEgg's suggestion of a Type One blank.
TD
I am leaning this way too, but would a type 1 blank fit into the collar? Because the reeding is so sharp and visible on the obverse photo, I wonder if this may be a partial collar strike.
Sean Reynolds
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You're right. It could be a partial collar strike.
It might have a 'touch' (contact) of reeding at 4:00,
but it doesn't look like a partial collar Mercury Dime to me -
and it's not a Type 1 Blank, imo.
Sean - I don't see any reeding 'so sharp and visible on the
Obv. photo.'
Somebody buy it and weigh it so that we can rule out foreign planchet.
Tom, It's not on a foreign planchet.
It has the same look as hundreds of
broadstrucks (or partial partial collars)
that I've seen.
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Didn't think it was, but I like to rule out possibilities when possible.
These were struck with the obverse as the anvil die, right? If that is reeding adjacent to the obverse at 4 o'clock (and I will not swear that it is, though I think so), and it were a partial collar strike, shouldn't we see a flange behind that reeding where the reverse rim bulged outwards?
It's a very interesting Mercury Dime. I'm surprised it's still available.
Told, yes, that's why I think it's just a
Broadstrike, with -maybe- a touch of
reeding at 4:00.