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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 3315808, member: 20480&quot;]Getting huffy won&#039;t get you your way.&nbsp; I edited your post because it was reported as offensive.&nbsp; The fact that your language fell outside the guidelines of being suitable for 1950&#039;s television is all the reason I need to do so.&nbsp; The fact that I hadn&#039;t seen your prior use of that word reported is irrelevant.&nbsp; We can&#039;t all be watching all of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The artifact I referred to visually resembles a D in the photo, despite not conforming to the geometry of the mintmark you and I both know looks very different on a legitimate &#039;16-D dime.&nbsp; Whether that artifact is merely toning, or if there is some raised metal there, perhaps from being a heavily worn counterfeit, matters not.&nbsp; What matters is that you openly criticized someone who apparently lacks your experience, rather than trying to understand what he / she was really seeing, and weighing in afterward.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your claim that the 1916-D dime is not rare in XF45 or AU50, that is a rare coin in my mind.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Not only because of the sheer number of Merc Dime collectors who must forego the date in any grade, but because of all of the grades in which one could collect Merc Dimes - individual mint state grades excepted - XF is the hardest grade in which to locate the &#039;16-D . . . and it&#039;s no close race.&nbsp; If you didn&#039;t already know this, I&#039;m very surprised.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not making excuses for the lister of that coin, as much as I&#039;m asking you not to assume they know exactly what they have. </p><p><br /></p><p>Should he / she have asked someone more knowledgeable about the coin before listing it?&nbsp; Yes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Should you have asked the seller a bit more about the coin and their knowledge of coins before lambasting him / her?&nbsp; Yes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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