If you were gonna buy a merc, which one?

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• fcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 6:55AM

  I think you can find a coin dating in the 1940s in MS67 no bands for that price range. Try ebay and good luck.

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• mirabela Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 6:57AM

  I think you can find some of the 40's in 66 with full bands at that price, and if not then you can certainly find something in 65FB and have a few bucks left. You might appreciate having the fully struck coin more than the extra freedom from marks. On such a small coin, a 65 usually doesn't have many disturbances of note anyway.

  mirabela

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• Bruceswar Posts: 2,869

  October 23, 2006 6:59AM

  I got this one for under 40.00
  
  

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• RW Posts: 485 ✭

  October 23, 2006 7:00AM

  Edit: Nice coin ^
  
  You have 3 ours and 19 minutes to bid on THIS ONE.
  
  Or you could get a 65FB for $40 or so.

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• ONETHREE Posts: 1,126 ✭

  October 23, 2006 7:03AM

  Thanks for the opinions. I have been scouring e-bay and checking the pcgs price guide. I noticed the forties was probably the decade to shoot for. I am buying it for my brother for christmas. He was fascinated by one he recently got in change at a chinese resturaunt. (He had never seen one before.) It was very worn and he couldn't make out all the details. I thought I would get him a decent one to look at.

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• CarsonCityGold Posts: 1,856 ✭

  October 23, 2006 7:07AM

  
  
  << <i>If you were gonna buy a merc, which one? >>
  
  
  
  50 Model with a chopped top, nosed, decked and slammed - no bags! Oh, were you talking about coins?

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• ONETHREE Posts: 1,126 ✭

  October 23, 2006 7:15AM

  I was thinking a little later model with less miles....

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• SamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭

  October 23, 2006 12:56PM

  I would suggest later 30's mint marked ms65 or above with good eye apeal, there out there and the series is soft right now.

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• bhartman35 Posts: 1,398

  October 23, 2006 1:08PM

  IMHO, I would go for something in the 40's with full bands. I'd also recommend something PCGS-slabbed. That's the advice I got when I started collecting Mercuries, and it's served me well. It teaches you what to look for (more or less).
  
  That's just MHO.

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