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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3654864, member: 10461"]Nice sleuthing, [USER=44633]@spirityoda[/USER]. That's exactly what it is. How interesting. I'd never seen a repoussé popout Mercury dime before, either.</p><p><br /></p><p>That fad was en vogue earlier, around the turn of the century, in the era of the Barber coins. Here is an example I had on a 1900 Barber dime.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1900-BarberDimePopout-002500.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1900-BarberDimePopout-002500.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1900-BarberDimePopout-002500.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Too bad the example in the original post is in such rough shape. It would be a fairly desirable piece of exonumia if the condition were better. It's still interesting, even as it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3654864, member: 10461"]Nice sleuthing, [USER=44633]@spirityoda[/USER]. That's exactly what it is. How interesting. I'd never seen a repoussé popout Mercury dime before, either. That fad was en vogue earlier, around the turn of the century, in the era of the Barber coins. Here is an example I had on a 1900 Barber dime. [URL='http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1900-BarberDimePopout-002500.png'][IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1900-BarberDimePopout-002500.png[/IMG][/URL] Too bad the example in the original post is in such rough shape. It would be a fairly desirable piece of exonumia if the condition were better. It's still interesting, even as it is.[/QUOTE]
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