Is this a FSB 43 D Mercury dime?

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  jonesy Posts: 5,031

  October 27, 2005 4:11PM

  Looks good to me!!

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  Deadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭

  October 27, 2005 4:20PM

  From the picture, I'd say no.
  
  Sorry. There needs to be a clear division between the center two horizontal bands or you are out of luck.
  
  Even a bag hit that compresses the metal into touching will rule it out. I've had that happen more than once.
  
  If those center horizontal bands looked like the bottom two bandss, you'd be FSB home free.

  "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
  John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff

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  Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭

  October 27, 2005 8:31PM

  It's hard to tell from your pic, but I would say no too. Try rotating the dime 90 degrees and then take a pic.
  
  

  "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson

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  LucyBop Posts: 14,004 ✭✭✭

  October 27, 2005 9:43PM

  that one is iffy..
  
  but is has a very nice reverse for a $14 dollar coin... You got it at a raw price..... Sounds like a decent deal to me...

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  kiyote Posts: 5,571 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 28, 2005 5:55AM

  Thanks for your replies, everyone.... I'm trying to educate myself about Mercs before I dive into that series. Yeah, at $14, I'm not too unhappy, and the obverse looks great, too. (This one ended up in my Capital Plastics 20th century type set holder)

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  XpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭

  October 28, 2005 5:58AM

  It's FBL-lite™

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  pharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭

  October 28, 2005 6:11AM

  Might be just glare obscuring that spot on the middle bands, or a little quish catching the light which would make it non in any event. But, I'm ever the optomist, and think it's fsb.
  
  Speaking of optimists, I read a funny earlier today that you may have already heard. The definition of an optimist is a kid who gets a pile of horse turds for Christimas and digs through it saying "there's gotta be a pony in here somewhere"

  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
  
  Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
  
  

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