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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 6447430, member: 105098&quot;]I respectfully disagree. I&#039;m not saying it&#039;s fake or it&#039;s real, I have a really hard time with them myself when it&#039;s circulated and there&#039;s wear and flattening. The 1916D dime was ODV-001/RVD-001, it was high relief compared to the&nbsp; -002s that start in 1917 through 1945. if gunk were to build up it would be more pronounced on this first design between the cracks and crevices of the devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>top and bottom of the mintmark is parallel to each other, but I&#039;d agree it looks suspect still also. as far as the black that&#039;s still on the coin I think a cleaning was attempted and given up on. Terminal toning and an attempted abrasive cleaning, then trying to work on the nooks and crannies of &quot;DIME&quot; and gave up, I think.</p><p>Although it all could be done to cover up a fake of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>the 1916D mintmark is the same D punch used on the 1914-D cent for what it&#039;s worth and they only made 4 reverse dies for the 1916-D, two of them are RPMs.</p><p>Wexler has both of them <a href="https://www.doubleddie.com/754355.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.doubleddie.com/754355.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.doubleddie.com/754355.html</a>. Ideally if you could narrow down to one of those, your done, but excluding those, there&#039;s still two more which isn&#039;t bad considering other coins and how many dies I suppose.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256299[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1256300[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, I hate these things.. 1916-Ds, but I&#039;m inclined to think it might be authentic and harshly cleaned to remove terminal toning by someone at some point. I still wouldn&#039;t buy it unless the seller sent it to a reputable TPG and you could find it on a cert look up, there&#039;s no reason NOT to, unless it&#039;s fake really. Even if it was detailed and marked genuine it would at least make it less sketchy and sell for more than without it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse pictures might help. I see nothing here that would indicate this NOT being RDV-001 though. Added Mintmark, manipulated mintmark, I don&#039;t know from these pics. the top and bottom of the D are very straight and parallel to each other as they should be, something that Randy&#039;s picture he posted doesn&#039;t have, the bottom of it curves into the D,m it&#039;s not straight with the top of it.&nbsp; I would suppose if it turned up in my hands somehow it would be worth at least sending to ANACS and let them tell me their opinion on it if it&#039;s genuine, the cheapest and a reputable way to get it authenticated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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