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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 39141, member: 68&quot;]In 1982 a P mint mark was inadvertantly left off of a single die at the Philly mint.&nbsp; There are apparently three die stages of this die pair.&nbsp; The first was a die trial that was likely no more than a few strikes.&nbsp; The dies are well alligned and the strike is nearly full.&nbsp; Something happened before the press went into production and the first few thousand strikes are weakly struck from misaligned dies.&nbsp; Most of these ended up in the Pittsburg area.&nbsp; The dies were then realigned and another larger quantity was struck with much better results and are referred to as the strong strikes.&nbsp; Most of these were released in the Sandusky, Ohio area.&nbsp; There are estimated to be about 10,000 total mintage on these but I&#039;ve always suspected that this estimate is extremely low.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen strikes from worn dies and it&#039;s most unusual for dies to show such wear until at least 100,000 coins have been struck.&nbsp; Also there have been reports of these turning up in circulation ever since 1982.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a VG. </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1969 was a normal mint run but these coins were horribly made and most went straight into circulation.&nbsp; There were nearly a couple million put into mint sets but the majority of these sets have been destroyed over the years due to lack of interest and corrosion.&nbsp; Even when these sets were brand new the vast majority of the Philly dimes were very unattractive because of excessive marking, poor strikes, and lousy surfaces.&nbsp; The coins were not struck with enough authority to completely obliterate all the scratches that were on the planchets so most are very unattractive.&nbsp; Rolls of this date are virtually non-existent because people simply did not save new coins in that era.&nbsp; If such a roll had come on the market between 1970 and 1999 there would have been a near certainty that it would have simply been used as change in a coin shop.&nbsp; But make no mistake, this roll was very scarce in 1970 and it&#039;s certainly no more common today.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This means that a really nice attractive AU 1969 dime in circulation might be among the thirty or forty thousand finest of the date.&nbsp; Sinne AU&#039;s and XF&#039;s have become so infrequently encountered in circulation even a nice VF might be highly collectible to those who like nice strikes and attractive coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Each date of all coins are different and there are certainly other highly desirable dimes that can be found in circulation from grade rarities to OMM&#039;s and doubled dies.&nbsp; There is a really nice DDO &#039;68 that shows up with some regularity though it can&#039;t be rare since it represents about about 2% of mint set coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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