I feel awful.... 1916-D Mercury dime....

i personally could have gotten in the 800-1000 dollar range for it because it is the key date of the merc series !!

 

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You personally could've gotten more out of it? Do you have secret powers that make people buy it for more?

I agree that although it is a key in the series, I don't think it was worth upwards of $1,000. Coin looks about G4/AG3, Checking previous ebay auctions I could see it going for $400-600.

 

I just don't put much faith in the overinflated catalogue prices. Maybe there are places where people pay catalogue without question.

 

I'm sure that was his problem. This type of dime album make it tough to remove the coin by just pressing on the reverse slide. The page is much thicker than the worn dime. The slides get stuck and if you do open it, worn dimes just fall out.
Back to the coin. Bad images but that D just don't look right.

 

I think we've all missed the obvious. This dime looks as if it was in a blue Whitman folder and NOT an album with slides. Which is why he used a tool to pry with. I would imagine anyway.

Real shame either way.

 

It very much looks like a blue Whitman album and not a folder... look at the gold colored font and leatherette-type page covers.

As said in my first post, I would not touch it based off of the provided photos, and others have since echoed this sentiment. The point is that, at least with my eyes, the images are not of the quality necessary to make an educated call as to the coin's authenticity. Perhaps you are willing to do so, but it seems many here are not, so making braggart claims of how much you could sell this coin for impresses no one. I've no doubt that with a little work disguising the scratch, the coin could be sold for much more than it is, or even was worth to someone out there, but is this the type of person you really want to be?

It is called playing hot shot. Sooner or later he will realize that making such claims actually make him look like something quite different than what he's hoping to portray.