How about this coin for a added mint mark!!! 1916-D Mercury
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Pretty skilled work!!
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Most added mintmarks are glued on. Put a drop of acetone on the mintmark and it'll fall off in a minute. Also, this mintmark doesn't have the right shape. Real ones have a triangular opening in the D mintmark. Also, the 1916-D dimes were struck using four different reverse dies. Check to see if the mintmark location matches the location of one of these dies.
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I have several 16d dimes. That D doesn't look right to me.
If it’s any consolation, the bands look pretty good.
It looks like a real coin with an added mintmark which might explain why the bands look pretty good..
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Genuine coin
Genuine mintmark
Just not minted together
pass
It'd fool a lot of folks.
Would it fool Maserati27?
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They did a better than average job with the mintmark. Placement looks close, and the mintmark itself looks better than most added fakes.
In addition, the mintmark looks too shallow.
Pete
What do you mean by “genuine mintmark”? I don’t know how an added mintmark could in any way, be considered “genuine”.
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
I read somewhere that people would sometimes shave a D mintmark off a real but common date dime such as a 1944-D and then glue it to a 1916 dime. Not sure how prevalent this practice was though.
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He’d get it for a cent.
Technically, that could be done. But a D from 1944 is the large style and the correct D for 1916 is the small style. The coin shown in this tread has the small style.
At first glance ... I saw the serif tails are ... way .. way ... wrong coming off the back of the mint mark. Fast dead give away.
I have heard that old explanation also, but in all my years I have never seen a mint mark I suspected was cut off of another coin. I am suspecting that doing so would warp the mint mark. Easier to cast a new mint mark and attach it.
When I looked at the OP, I felt it was 'off' in some respect... so I looked at some pictures and it became obvious that the center of the D was very different from authentic D dimes. Cheers, RickO