Well this happened today...

I've spent hours upon hours of my life with a loupe & Cherrypicker's Guide. Only found a handful of varieties, and mostly not super exciting ones. 1964 Accented Hair, etc.

Happened to be going through small group of Mercury dimes for a friend this afternoon and had just about given up when I came across this one. Didn't need the loop or Cherrypickers to know what I found. Hope this gives a little hope to everyone else out there variety picking!

Thoughts on grade? VF/XF? Cleaned?

 

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WOW.. Just WOW

Nice find!

 

awesome!

 

Super find. I’m still waiting for my day to come. Want a 1999 WAM or 1972dd

 

What a great find!

 

Tremendous find.

 

…A collectors’ dream-come-true! I remember seeing a picture of this in my first Yeoman Red Book thinking what a fantastic find it would be…and here you go and actually do it! Kudos to you!…Spark

 

Congrats on stumbling upon a great collectors bucket list find.

As you stated @HULLCOINS no loupe necessary for that beauty. And as @ToughCOINS said, send that puppy in for slabbing and authenticating.

 

Dang!

 

Nice find.

 

So....what's the deal with it? What makes it sought after? I think I just answered my own question. I went and looked up 1942 dime on ebay and what came up was the 2 over the 1 in the date. Now I see it on this one. Great.

 

Nice that you did a little research and found out why it’s sought after. The 1942/41 is as plain as the nose on your face. LOL No need for magnification on it. However the 1942/1-D is harder to see. The first sun is the 4 appears to be slightly doubled. The mint did a cleaner job of rubbing out the 1 on the Denver issue. Your Red Book should clearly show the differences.

 

That is so awesome and it does give us all hope congrats.

 

Congratulations, nice to be rewarded for all that time spent searching.

 

Hope your friend offers finders fees. VERY NICE!

 

Thanks everyone for the positive responses. I'll submit for grading and share the outcome when I hear back!

 

Hi All! It took awhile to get graded- but I received the coin back last week. Excited about the grade and was happy to share the discovery with my friend.

 

Awesome! Got a higher grade than I expected.