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AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Picked this one up awhile ago and had it trueviewed while at the Vegas member show with my wife... Phil did another awesome job for me and I finally got to meet him...

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,007 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Really pretty Mercury dime.....wowee!

    Phil is quite amazing......nice pickup AB.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats AB as that a very pretty lil Winged Lib dime image
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  • PCGSPhotoPCGSPhoto Posts: 768 mod
    Thanks, and I'm glad you like the pic. Toned Merc dimes like this can be very difficult to capture.

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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    Ah. One of that Denver hoard (and the highest graded I think). I love the look of all of that group!

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    AB collects Teeny-Weenie coins too?? This is scandalous! image

    BTW - nice pic..... image
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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What did the Dealer do? Did he mint the coin? Get it slabbed? Rescue it from an old Whitman holder? Or bought it from some collector for 10% back of bid?

    What is the "awesome" job?
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  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What did the Dealer do? Did he mint the coin? Get it slabbed? Rescue it from an old Whitman holder? Or bought it from some collector for 10% back of bid?

    What is the "awesome" job? >>



    Phil is the photographer who took the picture.
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  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>AB collects Teeny-Weenie coins too?? This is scandalous! image

    BTW - nice pic..... image >>



    Haha! image This one most definitely tests my still 20/20 but has that smile factor with blaze that I love Lakesamman... Or I just could be a rebel... image

    Thank you Goldbully and Broadstruck!

    Fcloud would love to hear more of the Denver hoard as I am not familiar with it... PM me if you have time... image

    AMRC as CRO said I was complimenting the awesomne photography of Phil Arnold whom is the trueview photographer for PCGS... I picked up the coin awhile back from an auction...
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of the 1939-D's from the so called hoard which all have the same type toning and hues is plated on the Guide Book cover.

    Legend once handled 5 of these at the same time as I recall maybe 4 MS68's and your MS69?

    There's other MS67's out there also which are just as pretty.

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  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Breathtaking color-just a lovely coin!
  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Broadstuck! Cool! I see that my coin is now in coin facts and there are several more with a similar look in other grades as well that are probably the other ones you mentioned from that hoard...

    ABimage
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,642 ✭✭✭✭✭
    cool coin. ms69...nice!
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    I think the hoard came out in the mid 1990s. If you go to the PCGS Coin Fact page for the 1939-D you will find a whole group of them. Notice how they all have a band across the front that isn't toned. I think they came out of those old banded holders the banks would give away for you to save dimes.

    Here is the Coin Facts link. Take a look at all of those beautiful dimes!

    http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/5019

    Here is my MS67FB version.

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/5019 >>



    Thanks for the link fcloud... Looks like this hoard has been resubmitted heavily with now 13 @ MS68+
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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/5019 >>



    Thanks for the link fcloud... Looks like this hoard has been resubmitted heavily with now 13 @ MS68+ >>



    Make sure to check out both full band and regular strikes. I think both have images.

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  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks fcloud... What a beauty you have! Great looking coin and I agree that it looks like the group had come from the banded holders...

    ABimage
  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful dime, outstanding image Phil........and look at all that luster just dripping of that little beauty!!





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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That coin must be about a thousand times more amazing in hand.

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  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That coin must be about a thousand times more amazing in hand. >>



    Phil did a great job with the image and in hand it`s a real blazer!

    Thank you as well Stef!

    ABimage
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great coin, and I'm a huge fan of Phil and the TrueView program, for sure. image

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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • DaveWcoinsDaveWcoins Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭
    I always wondered what the story behind the "Denver hoard" was. Fresh 1939-D's put into a bank book dime folder is an explanation that makes sense. They are very distinctive looking when you see them.

    Spectacular coin, AB!
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  • IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    My understanding is that they were stored in the bank folders, like the "dime Kitty" holders, for
    many decades in Colorado. The chemicals in the paper/cardboard, combined with that clean, dry
    mountain air, produced the colors. The hoard contained 1939-D and 1940-D dimes -- somewhere
    around 200 or so -- and appeared to be handpicked for quality before they were put into the
    holders.

    I believe that the original submitter included one of the holders when the coins were sent in, to
    show the graders how they were stored and help explain the toning patterns. Not sure which
    grading service saw them first, but the average grade the first time around was MS-67 Full Bands.
    The nicest ones have slowly crept up the grading ladder, and today most of the MS-68+ and MS-69
    Mercury dimes in holders were part of this hoard. I do not think that any of them have earned a
    MS-69+ grade (does PCGS use this grade?).

    Beautiful coin -- easily one of the nicest in the entire hoard!

  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭
    Love the coin. Nuff said.image


    Mike
  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,526 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Me likey! That's purty!
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My understanding is that they were stored in the bank folders, like the "dime Kitty" holders, for
    many decades in Colorado. The chemicals in the paper/cardboard, combined with that clean, dry
    mountain air, produced the colors. The hoard contained 1939-D and 1940-D dimes -- somewhere
    around 200 or so -- and appeared to be handpicked for quality before they were put into the
    holders. >>



    If placed in a teaching a child about saving kitty or piggy holder wouldn't you think that "handpicked for quality" is a wild goose chase and that these just came from original rolls of 50 image
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