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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3671771, member: 10461&quot;]Yes, that is just a regular business strike (NON-proof) dime struck at Philadelphia (and a damaged, &quot;roadkill&quot; example, at that), and as such, it is worth exactly ten cents.&nbsp; Face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>valuable </i>1968 dime with no mint mark is a <i>proof</i>.&nbsp; Proofs were struck only at San Francisco that year, and should have gotten &quot;S&quot; mintmarks, but some didn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you&#039;re accustomed to seeing modern proof coins of this era, the difference is obvious, but this &quot;business strike versus proof&quot; thing does trip up a lot of uninitiated new collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>A proof is struck under extra pressure and will have very squared-off edges, and a deeply mirrored surface, because they were manufactured that way, in an entirely different process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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