42D/41 Merc

OK now I need some opinions. I have several 1942D/41 Mercury Dimes that have been purchased. I found the following at a flea market for about $0.95 I took it to a coin show and showed it to several dealers and all said NO. It looks like the others I've seen and have. Any opinions?

 

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doesnt look like one to me either

 

I am sorry-- but I have to agree NOT!

The true 42/1 D shows a trace of the 4 to the left of the base of the top 4.
Also, there is more trace of the underlying 1 beneath the 2, especially at the left base of the two.

 

It does not look similar to this one (courtesy of Heritage)

 

rlm:
That is the P mint one.
The D is far more subtle.

 

I think that one is the 42/41 not the 42D/41. I have those also and that is what they look like.
The D is more like what others described. Close though.

 

for an other example of what is does not look like, just check eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1942-1-D-Error-...5225544QQihZ015QQcategoryZ41092QQcmdZViewItem


but this should work, looks legit.
http://members.cox.net/robertr612/1942O1_D_MD_VF.jpg

 

This is the real one. It was in a slab but now in my album.

Sure wish the other one was one since it cost so little.

 

Carl:
Yup, that's it!
nice photo.

 

For sure the second one is real. I've got a few of them but had to buy them. Like I said I was only hoping my $0.95 coin was a winner. At least mine not real one looks better than the one you showed that is not real also.
Meanwhile back to adding 2's on top of the 1's.

 

Sorry. You were correct. This is a 1942/1-D also from Heritage.

 

For a buck, you still didn't do bad.

 

and it gave Carl some excitement for a little while.

 

close but no banana

 

Actually only $0.95 At a buck I might not have bought it. Close to my monitary limit.
for real it would have been nice to find something like that at a flea market.

 

agreed, I found mine in a bag of junk silver--
now in an NGC XF-45 holder.

 

Let's see if I can do this imaging thing correctly.
If so, I'll show you my '42/'41-D
Not as much detail of the date area, but....

 

kanga:
nice photo, thanks

 

It is an interesting pieces and has been made clear by now it is not the widely known 1942/1 D dime. Now a question. How can we be sure there is only one 1942/1 D obverse? The 42/1 P was discovered early on. The person who discovered the 42/1 D also discovered it early on but couldn't get anyone to pay any attention to it because "The overdate is on the Philadelphia coin." The discoverer of the 43/2 nickel spent almost two decades trying to get anyone to pay attention to it because a cataloger had listed a "1943 nickel with a die crack in the lower loop of the 3 that makes it look like a 3/2" Every time he tried to show it to someone they just dismissed it and said "oh that's just that variety with the die crack". I see a lot of people who show a 1972 cent and ask Is this a doubled die? And immediately they get back from everyone "No that is not the doubled die." That wasn't what he asked, and there are many doubled dies for 1972. Maybe his is one of those. But no one ever looks. They look for the one major variety that they know about and if it doesn't match they dismiss it without considering whether it might be something else.

Now Just Carl's dime has some interesting features. Most noticeably what look like part of a 1 above the curve of the 2. I can't tell from the photo what it is but it might be worth further investigation, other photos etc. Is it dirt? other foreign matter?, the result of damage? I just can't tell. But I think it might be worth looking closer instead of just dismissing it because it isn't the variety we already know about. (How do you think new varieties get discovered?)

Having said that I am doubtful that it could be an undiscovered overdate for the reason that I am not seeing any evidence of a dual hub anywhere else in the date area.