1916 Possible D Merc Dime? (big pictures)

This dime came with a lot of Merc dimes that I buy from someone on Ebay - he gives me good deals, usually at or slightly under melt

Its seen better days, that's for sure.
Most of the dimes he sends have some toning, most likely been in an album forever.







Possible D? Maybe, but as they say on the tootsie roll pop commercials... the world may never know

Thought I'd share

 

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Vey nice! Maybe its a D

 

It could have quite possibly have been one. You can always go buy a dremel tool and make your own "D".

 

Could of been an S too..

 

1916...........

might very well be worth the risk to have a tpg check it out!!!

 

nah, save your cash.
I still think that I had one.
Sent it to ANACS, thought that they'd be the best to check it out.
Now I have the world's mosr expensive 1916 P FA-2 merc.

 

Should have tried SGS. At least that way, if you still didn't get the "D", you would have at least gotten an AU-58 grade.

 

too bad there's no acid thing, like for buffalo nickels.

 

acutally, does anyone know if there is?

like a Merc-a-date. :high5:

 

why not put it on the ebay starting at a dime

 

too true!

 

NO, NO a demel will make the D indented. He needs a D cut off from another coin or if real carefull, add with Silver Solder from a soldering iron.

 

well I'll be.

Think I should try it?
or is it too worn?

 

The problem with nic-a-date and many similar chemicals when using them to etch a silver coin and bring out a date is that a great many silver compounds are light sensative and instantly turn the treated area a dark black which efectively hides the faint date or feature you are trying to bring out.

You might be able to do it in a totally dark room and clean away all the chemicals from the surface of the coin before exposing it to the light. That might work, but of course in the totally dark room you can't see to tell when the date has been restored. I don't know but you might be able to do it with a darkroom safelight. (A safelight produces light in a certain portion of the red spectrum that allows you to see but does not react with the silver compounds used on photographic film.)

 

Look at it like this. You've got a coin that is worth Silver Weight only now. If you spent money on something like any solution to bring out a date, mint mark, etc and ended up with a horribly discolored coin that is still worth only Silver weight. So now you have spent money for nothing except to experiment. Sort of a waste of time.

 

I say do it. Even if it's black there, if it's a D, clean it and send it to ANACS or ICG and get a net grade of somewhere between 0 and .25, and sell it to a collector who can finally afford a 16 D.

 

From my experience, if you stare at the coin long enough, you will start to see a mintmark.......or at least think you see one.

 

Well, I already actually have the nic-a-date...