Mercury Gold Dime - Who Got Full Split Bands?

Something about fools and their money

 

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Mine are all Full Torch not Full Split Bands.

 

Laser etching is the reason I no longer buy new U.S. mint coins. The concern is speed and die deterioration, not quality. This was a special strike and they could of spent a little extra time making the dies. They should have hired outside engravers to add the necessary detail. This was a collectors piece that failed to meet collector standards. Soon our coins will need to be made overseas like many of our products. Perhaps the Chinese fakes will be better than the original mint's version.

 

will the next coin be the original quarter or the rengraved quarter with the top on

 

Just got mine in the mail tonight and the way the US Mint use the design, I don't believe that there will be a FBS for this coin. Also from my orders I don't see that anyone of mine will be MS 70. It looks like that it will be pretty hard to get MS70 from any orders. So it to me them must have alot of them coins to submit and get the grade MS 70 and also getting FBS.

 

It will be the original 1916 pattern design, Spock

 

with the household "limit" imposed by the mint, how can ebay sellers be offering boxes of the coins for sale? i know the probable answer, having attended my share of my university's basketball seasons: those unethical persons use "scalpers" with no numismatic, i assume, ideas as shills to buy beyond the household limit and thus deprive many who tried to buy this coin from getting it. I got home late by half an hour and could not make a phone order or online order. One other interesting point: the sellout rate of this coin demonstrates what happens when the mint sells a coin that does not cost what the 2015 gold high relief Liberty cost--it sells out in less than an hour instead of several days. If anyone at the mint paid attention, or played fairly as in the "surprise" last year of spring the reverse proof presidential dollar in the Truman Coin and Chronicles set, there would be more offerings like this celebratory dime. Edited: political comments not allowed~ read the rules.

 

the coin is a "business strike" not a proof coin. none of the three bands are split; probably not part of the design!

 

Absolutely. As a Mercury Dime collector I am thoroughly disappointed at the lack of fsb and the poor definition genrally. They must have selected the most worn die they could find to make these.

 

I am thoroughly disappointed with the gold Mercury Dime. As a collector I am appalled that they chose to use a die with such poor definition and lack of FSB. Is it possible they used different dies or the same one for the entire 125,000 run?

 

A business strike refers to coins that are meant for circulation. The gold Mercury Dime is not meant for circulation. I have no idea why they clled it a business strike other than to distinguish it from a proof. Why oh why could they not have put out a coin with good definition and FSB. I am genuinely peed off about it. Lousy work by the Mint.

 

I am with you there. As a Mercury Dime collector of long standing I was most keen to get 2 or 3 of these at the Mint's asking price of $205. I was late by minutes and had to spend $270 each on eBay to get them, only to find they are a poor reproductions that, if they were real silver dimes wouldn't make it to the MS level.

 

Here's your answer. Apparently technology has advanced so far that they can't produce fsb on these. I'm not a merc collector per se but the mints lack of going the extra mile on this really irks me to no end. I may get one WLH when they come out but I'm really disgusted by the paper pushers and decision makers at the us mint!

http://news.coinupdate.com/2016-w-gold-winged-liberty-dime-u-s-mint-exclusive/

 

All the photographs of Mercury Gold dimes that I have seen look gold. The ones shown here all like like silver and from #29 I see we need a diameter measurement to find out one from the other. I need enlightenment.

 

So the breasts will be visible? I wonder how people will react today

 

my guess they will have strike issues and not place that detail on the coin similar to the fsb issue, but well see.

 

lets hope the head doesnt disappear

 

Yeah, this was already addressed in another thread. The mint admitted that the way the dies are made with machines now, that for some reason it wasn't capable of replicating that detail. So I'd say none will have FSBs unless they're altered by the owner.

 

They used 75 different die pairs to produce the mintage according to a coin news article I read. It wasn't an issue of the dies being worn. The detail wasn't on the brand new dies due to the machining process they say. It is disappointing but I think they still look good.

 

Don't forget about the rim finning issue that is apparently much more common than it should be