What's your opinion of this Mercury dime?

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It looks really nice to me. Are you thinking about sending it in for grading?

I can't quite tell from the photo's but I would put it at MS64 or 65 FB if you sent it to PCGS. NGC would not come back FB however.

 

It looks fake to me. Is it a coaster or other large oversized disk?

 

The rim and the 23 of the date look somewhat smashed down.

 

Normal size.

 

Very well struck Mercury.
The pictures make it look like it has a satin finish.
Possible pvc damage???

 

Something doesn't seem right, lots of lustre though. I dont collect them?

 

My take is that is a fake. Nothing I can point to, but it just looks wrong.

 

Everything is too nice not to have full bands!

 

First 3 second impression,counterfeit

3 in date looks to fat
weakness in the E of liberty with the strengh of the head with the exception of the front of the face

 

Obverse looks very strange. Not a series I'm an expert in tho

 

Interesting. I agree with those who think the date looks funny. The 2, and, particularly, the 3 look off to me. The surfaces look funky (that's the technical term, you know). I would suspect either a fake or altered surfaces. If genuine, that is a very sharply struck Merc.

Do you own this coin or are you considering buying it, just out of curiosity?

 

I'm leaning towards fake as well. First gut feeling and people been telling me to trust my gut. I'm looking hard and making myself believe there are casting bubbles behind the neck.

 

Interesting coin. I don't think the dies were appropriately basined; you see that same flattening at the edges with Peace Dollars for the same reason. That makes the center well struck up at the cost of the periphery.

 

It's an interesting coin. It was posted over on the NGC board. I first thought it was fake. The more I looked at it, I couldn't figure out what made me think that. The term funky fits this coin.

 

The relief seems too low, but this may just be the way the coin was imaged. I hesitate to call it a fake based on this because everything else looks correct. The date flatness is pretty normal on the early 1920s Mercury dimes.

 

fake

 

I overlaid your image with one from Heritage. The only possible difference I could see was the IGWT might be very slightly off. Then I saw the problem. The reeding on the Heritage coin was very obvious and I can barely see it on your coin. You might want to check the reeding more closely both in depth and count (spacing).

 

Heritage uses 150mm Canon macro lenses with a rather wide field of view, and can "peek over the sides" more easily than a smaller lens. I'm unsurprised that the reeding isn't necessarily visible in these images, and I'd suspect Larry would have noticed if the coin lacked reeding.

All the same, a reed check couldn't hurt as a diagnostic tool. Wish I knew how many to expect.

 

Not my coin. Sorry I was not clear.