Find of the week in my house (not)

I am a recent new member and have read quite a few posts and am enjoying what you all are saying.
I have been a collector for 50 years and have managed to amass very little in terms of monetary value, but I have had a good time and enjoy looking at my stuff.
My wife's brother had a box of coins, which he had collected as a child, in his parents' house. They moved out, my wife called her brother and he said I could have the coin box. Lots of common foreign coins, a few decent Lincolns, one excellent Flying Eagle, and a Mercury dime folder. Upon opening the Merc folder I noticed but one dime inserted in the first page, the 1916-D. This struck me as a bit odd, since the other keys (1921 and 1921-D) were absent. After scrutinizing the 16-D for a while, I thought to myself something was not quite right with this coin. I took it to a local dealer and he concurred. I will post a picture if anyone wants to see what a fake 16-D looks like (if I can figure out how to get a good, reasonably sized .jpeg).
Since it cost me nothing it's no big deal; I wish it were authentic, but then again, I enjoy knowing my brother-in-law got taken (he is a weasel).

 

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LOL! It's nice when weasels get what they deserve, isn't it!

Get yourself a Photobucket account and upload your pics there. Then copy the "IMG" line below the pic and paste it into your post. Easy!:smile

Oh, and welcome to CT!

 

Welcome to CoinTalk

In addition to PhotoBucket, you can also upload your photos and attach them to your posts... Please share that 1916 Merc.

 

Thats awesome, would love to see some pics of both the fake merc and the flying eagle. Welcome to CT.

 

welcome --

and we await the pictures.

 

If I have done this correctly there should be a few images to look at. None will have the National Geographic photographers worried that their jobs are in jeopardy.

 

That D does look a little off to me. And that FE cent is awesome! Nice find.

 

Welcome to CT! Great finds. Thanks for sharing those pics. TC

 

Did the dealer offer to buy it from you? I'd send it in to a TPG to get the final word. It's awful scrappy looking for a counterfeit, but you never know.

 

Might be added on, idk... can you take a pic of the MM through a loupe or magnifying glass?

 

The dealer did not want the coin. Attached is about the best I can do for a close-up of the MM. It is pretty blobby.

 

I'm no expert...

With that said, if the dealer didn't want it, he may be on to something. I don't see anything that jumps out at me about it... why not get it slabbed through a local dealer or something?

 

Welcome to CT and thanks for the pics. I am definately not a dime guy but I am sure these guys will get you some good info about the coin.
It is definately cool to get a box of free older coins no matter what they are worth. It is really fun going through them not knowing what you are going to get. Congrats

 

What's the worst, you lose a hundred for taking it to be graded or finding out it's real and making a decent profit from it? I guess it would depend on how strapped for cash you are but before you think about taking to a TPG maybe you should take it to another dealer or 2.

 

What dealer is gonna charge your a Benjamin to get it slabbed? Dealers around here will send it in for you for anywhere between $30 to $50. A few don't want to and charge ridiculous rates (IE; $100) but most are reasonable.

 

The worst thing that could happen is my brother-in-law would have been correct. But, if he knew he had that dime when he was a teenager (it was in the proper slot in the Whitman folder) he certainly would not have forgotten about it and would have wanted his coin box shipped to him when his parents moved. I know the value of the dime in the 60's wasn't anything like it is today, but all was relative.
There is a show in town this weekend. I'll take it for a couple more opinions.

 

I think maybe its the last one on the page? http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article1908.chtml

 

If it does get confirmed as a fake and you want to sell it shoot e a PM, I'm always looking to buy fake coins as refrence purposes (Maybe i'll write a book someday)

 

I'm still laughing about the weasel....

 

I agree with your statement, I should have gone into further detail to explain why I said what I said. When you consider time(including drive time to dealer for we dont know how far the OP lives)/wear and tear on vehicle/effort/actual costs, it adds up(I like to think my time is valuable) so I take everything into consideration.

Here are the prices for NGC
http://www.ngccoin.com/services/services.asp

PCGS: http://www.pcgs.com/howtosubmit.html