1936-S Mercury Dime Pick Up

Thats the plastic

Ruben

 

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You've now convinced me I need to take a new photograph because under the look I think I see fully split bands and certainly no hairlines lines. I don't know where those liens came from. I saw them in the original photo and the do not show up at all under the loop.

Ruben

 

1916 Fb Ms65

I picked up this NGC MS 65 with FB a year ago. It may help as a reference...

 

Looks fsb to me. I'd send it in. Or you could just give it to me. LOL

 

Here are some blowups of just the reeds:

Top:


Middle:


Bottom:


And here is a blowup of what I believe was the best of the complete dime
reverses



This is an excellent blowup as well
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup13.jpg

These are links worth looking at to judge the coin:

http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup2.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup3.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup4.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup5.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup6.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup7.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup8.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup9.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup10.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup11.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup12.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup14.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup15.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup16.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup17.jpg
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_back_blowup18.jpg

With regard to the lines on the reverse, I don't know what to think. One
reason I don't collect many dimes (or the 1/8th ounce gold) is because their
just too darn small. These lines on the photo do not show up to the naked
eye under the magnifying glass at first look or even at second or third
examination. If you tilt the coin at a specific extreme angle to can see them
amlost exclusively on the background. I just don't know enough about
metalology to make a judgement about it. They are not on the front.
I'm pretty fustrated with them.


OK - it took about 3 hours to do this and write this up, I hope someone
finds it useful and enjoyable.

Ruben:desk:

 

Looking at the photo's I was thinking that, but I could swear that under the glass you can see a complete line. That can't be a flick of the light though, it clearly looks like a break here

 

BTW - I'm wondering how much of a value difference there is do to that 1/10 mm of metal?

Ruben

 

Compare it to This

http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=232&Lot_No=7027#Photo



I got a bargain!

 

I was joking except for 2 things. That coin's photo seems to have the same kind of middle band spot in almost the same location.

Would you grade that coin MS67? I trust your grading more than the slab As usually, I fail to see the finer points that would make that particular coin an MS67 where as there
was another coin which was clearly supior in luster than seemingly that one or mine.

BTW _ consider it a bargain because I don't thing there is anything between those two coins which would cause me to drop an extra 1150 bucks. That would require another kind of connoisseur. I'm also looking at other MS65's FB and not FB and this coin, IMO has less defects than some of those. One has a huge nick in
the torch.


Ruben