Mercury Dime Time...Let's See

The gold is 16.5mm and a silver Mercury is 17.9mm.

 

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What website do you use to display your coins like that?

 

Gold diameter is only 16.5mm so it is smaller but weighs more at 3.11g

 

The PCGS Registry has an album feature. Those are screen captures of 4 pages from my 1934-45 Mercury short set.

 

Nice! All I need are (of course) the 1916-D, and also the 1921-D, and strangely enough, the 1927-D which is a common coin. I picked up the 1921-P just this past weekend.

 

Oohh... Thanks

 

17.9 mm-16.5 mm = 1.4mm yes it will fit as I will house it in a kointain before incerting in the boards which will snug it in place.

 

That's awesome set!!

 

It's a barber not a mercury dime. Lol my dad always called them Mercury Dimes.

 

Just wanted to thank ya'll for sharing. Unbelievable Dimes and sets of Dimes, never seen anything like them before. You should all ge proud of them for sure. Again, thank you for sharing much appreciated.

 

No I thought they were all Mercury. Does a Barber mean that it is worth a bunch of money in the bad shape its in. Lol why r they called Barbers?

 

Why? These coins were designed by United States Mint chief engraver Charles Barber and the dimes were minted from 1892 to 1916.

 

The highest graded coin that I have is a 1942 D Mercury - NGC MS 67 FB with a CAC green beaner. This type vaulted me into coin collecting at a very young age and remains one of my favorite designs. Despite that, somehow I never really collected the series and I only have 2 or 3 nice specimens. I appear to have inherited many circulated samples from relatives over the years, which now rest in rolls.