I have a chance to purchase a 1940 65PF merc dime for 90.00 It is currently residing in a old fat NGC holder with a valid cert number. Value on NGC's site is roughly 220.00. I guess this is technically a no brainer but, wanted to gage the forums thoughts.
Yes, I just checked the cert number and it is valid.... It is residing in a store here and isn't an auction ...
I didn't buy it yet, I wanted to at least come home and double check a few things, cert number and the like...
By the way, can I roughly date a holder by the numbers? This holder only has 6 digits plus the 3 digit versus the new ones that have 7+3
Photos added 1940 PF65 Okay, decided to go for it and I bought it. I loaded some photos, one of the holder and 2 others of the front and back.. Let me know how I ended up doing..
If the reverse of the slab has a hologram then it was slabbed in later '88, if not then it was late '87 or the first half of '88. For the money you did just fine.
There is a hologram on the back, though it is peeling somewhat. I would guess that must possibly be a die chip as there were no over-date varieties for the 1940 proof. The reverse is actually slightly rotated on this dime as well when looking at it straight on...
I see what you are talking about and it runs just across the top of the zero slightly to the right but I can't see anything beyond that or down thru the zero at all.
