Is that a D lurking on this 1916 dime?

From a bulk bin of Mercury dimes, I found this today. May have been worth all the searching...

Am I seeing a D (on this AG-3 ish specimen) or just imagining one?

 

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I can imagine a couple of "D"s and a couple of "S"s, but none of them are in the right position.

 

LOL. I was thinking more like Pareidolia at work here or wishful thinking? Hey, a guy can dream, right?

 

It doesn’t look like it’s positioned right.

 

Correction : It doesn't look like it's positioned "correctly"

 

It doesn’t look like a D to me. It looks like a hit occurred in that area and it’s now worn down and one’s imagination sees a D v by e cause of the date.

 

Reminds me of an old Everly Brothers song.

 

Pareidolia - the tendency of the human brain to create imaginary patterns out of random data.

or worse,

Financial Pareidolia - the tendency of the human brain to create imaginary patterns out of random data when there is a large financial incentive.

 

Too far gone to worry about... IMHO.

 

I think that's called "Technical Analysis".

 

Technical Analysis
When you Squint with one eye and close the other all while keep looking through the bin.

 

Even an AG-3 trends over $800.

If you have any more this far gone, I'm happy to buy them all off you for $2.40 apiece.

 

Ya know I bought a complete blue Whitman album about 5 years ago for $60.
Complete as in every hole was filled, I pulled all the dimes and put them in a plastic container.
I probably should go back and take a look and see if there happen to be a 1916-D in the 1916-D hole when I removed all the dimes.
Don't get me wrong, the book was in such terrible shape and the dimes not much better...I took a quick look but it didn't look Obvious so in the bin it went.
Maybe if I Squint with one eye and close the other it was really worn, what are the chances that someone would put a non 1916-D in the book never happens right

 

Some people don't mind collecting culls. I'd do a good bit of squinting and digging for a chance of a 1916-D cull. Or even a 21, 21-D, or 42/41.

 

Or a 1923-D...

 

That's as much a D as this is an S...

 

I learned about those here! Still don't have one. (Also, no spot in the album for it...)

 

Isn't that what the blank spots at the end of the album are ideal for?