1968 no mint mark Roosevelt Dime

And they should provide copies of their tax returns showing an AGI of at least 7 figures.

 

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Really, there's a litmus test for determining if your 1968 dime is rare. Generally speaking, if you're posting on here, and your post count is less than 5, your dime is not rare.

 

No - but they can get a $60 camera from Times Square and take a decent picture.

 

To everyone complaining about "newbies," as you can see in this reply he mentions square rims. What exactly does this person mean by square rims? They all look round to me!

 

Does that look remotely like a proof coin to you? Even with that lousy iphone picture you can tell that.

 

Steve,

The rim is the raised area around the edges of the obverse and reverse. The edge is the third side of the coin (where the reeding is located on a dime). When someone refers to 'square rims' they are referring to the corner where the edge and rims meet. On a Business Strike coin this corner is usually bevelled or rounded but on Proof coins the corner is usually square. This is because Proof coins are struck multiple times under higher pressure so the metal flows into this area making a square rim whereas Business Strike coins are struck once under less pressure and the metal usually does not fully flow into this area (which is why Business Strikes usually have bevelled or rounded rims).

 

I'm just saying......some people on here say things like "it's easy to tell if it's a proof" but then don't explain how or why. Then another persons says "proofs have square rims" without explaining what they mean. Perhaps if people gave more information when replying, the new person won't have to ask as many questions, thereby angering those who have experience. Although why anyone should get angry over it is beyond me......after all, this is a coin forum where you come to GET HELP........now I'll wait for someone to tell me that "newbies" should do research. Perhaps they did do research but they still don't understand, and since you can't ask a non-living website to clarify, they come to message boards like this one to get answers, only to be scared away by the all-knowing experts who were never "newbies" and most definately knew everything about coins since the day they were born. (yes, sarcasm. lol)

Sorry if anyone gets angry over my post......just sort of ummm.....you know....deal with it?

Yes, I know I posted something about "new collectors" and their obvious pmd coins, but there is a difference between asking if a coin is an error that was obviously smashed by a train and asking how to tell if your no mintmark dime is a proof.

 

So, Steve, I take it you weren't really asking what does "square rims" mean; you just wanted to vent. I guess I wasted my time writing my explanation.

 

No its not, because it is now in an easy to find thread and you can point to it now instead of repeating this over and overand overand overand over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and overand over

 

Yes I wanted to know what it meant, and I'm sure the original poster would like to know what it means also. I just wanted to point out that even the experts were "newbies" at some point in their life and they shouldn't just give vague answers that will just bring more questions. An example......I can solve the rubiks cube in about a minute and 30 seconds. If someone asked me how I do it and I said I use the algorithms and left it at that, I wouldn't be giving much of an answer because they would then want to know what I mean by algorithms. I wasn't trying to be mean in my post, but I know some people will be offended by it and some people won't.

Now I have to edit because I just did it too. Not everyone will know what a rubiks cube is, especially some younger people. It is a cube with six different colors, each color split into 9 squares in 3 rows. You have to get each side the same color, (one side all red, one side all blue, etc) by turning the rows and manipulating the squares into the correct position.

 

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I take it all back about "newbies." I guess there probably are some younger people out there who can't tell an error from obvious PMD. I am back peddling now because of what happened to me twice now. My bank had 4 rolls of halves so I bought them. No silver, just a lot of bicentennials. Well I went and spent some at McDonalds and two different cashiers (on two occasions) had no idea what they were. The one said "these are dollars, right?" Luckily for him I was honest. That happened a few months ago but I totally forgot about it until today when I handed the girl 4 halfs and she was standing there trying to figure out what they were. I guess it shouldn't surprise me since you hardly ever see halves around anymore and younger people probably have no idea they exist........but then again I just heard something on the news the other day about the re-release of the movie Titanic in 3D. Most of the kids and teens today had no idea that the Titanic was real. They think it is just some made-up story until they google it and find out otherwise.

I guess the information age is just too much for kids these days. They have no idea what is real and what isn't.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by "younger," but I'd put that at high school through maybe 21 years (minimum wage job age). I knew what a half was then, and used many when playing poker. And I surely knew about the Titanic. Maybe that was because it was about the time of the original James Cameron release, but I doubt it. It's a big story, and it's the 100th anniversary now, and I'd imagine that high school history still covers it. Heck, we covered it in college, when we covered Marconi and early radio.

 

I've had it happen twice again since I posted. One cashier asked if they were 50 cents, I said yes. My bill was 2.12 so I gave her 4 halves and 12 cents. She said, you only gave me 1.12. I said no, 50 times 4.......then she got it.

Today I asked the cashier if I could pay with 4 halves, she said yes. She said "we have a few in the drawer already" so I asked to see them. One of them was a 1967, so I traded her a 71 for it.

 

Well, I suppose it's probably the difference between the dumb kids and the smart kids.

 

I gotta say this is kind of a funny thread. I have to agree with a lot of what PennSteve has said. I will absolutely proclaim "newbie status" probably for my 1st year AT VERY LEAST here on the forums. I really try my best to research whatever it is I have questions about before posting here and attempt relay that I've done some homework first. Sometimes there is just too much info coming in from all sorts of different places that it becomes difficult to suss out the correct answer. I certainly don't want to anger the veteran collectors by asking questions that I'm sure have been repeated, but I know I feel better when I get a confident answer from a human that is obviously well versed in the subject at hand. Ironically I ended up here today because I'm going through a pile of dimes and wondering which years I should keep an eye out for with the no mm. Didn't know there was more than just '82. So yeah, we ALL learn something new, everyday, and I thank the folks that take the time out to spread their knowledge! :smile

 

That's what veteran collectors are here for, to help newbies :thumb:

 

I agree. Newer collectors can always research past threads since most of their questions have been asked and answered over the years, but if you don't find it don't be afraid to speak up. We don't bite, (well, maybe Doug and sometimes Ruben, but they have both had their shots).

 

i have two 1968 no mark roosevelt dime,would like to sell,i am new at this .

 

obviously. but you will turn a tidy profit if you just have patience. Where did you find them?