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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Revello, post: 24572827, member: 103898&quot;]See PCGS article:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/why-are-1945-philadelphia-mercury-dimes-with-full-bands-scarce" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/why-are-1945-philadelphia-mercury-dimes-with-full-bands-scarce" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/news/why-are-1945-philadelphia-mercury-dimes-with-full-bands-scarce</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, narrative comment from David Hall on PCGS Price Guide page for the 1945 Merc dime with FB:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;David Hall: I first became aware of the &quot;Full band&quot; situation with Mercury dimes in about 1975. I was at a coin show and the late Tom MacAfee said to me, &quot;I want to show you something very special and teach you something about Mercury dimes.&quot; So he pulled out a 1945-P and told me he had just sold it to a customer for $50. Since this was a $2 coin as far as I knew, I was pretty puzzeled. Tom told me to look at the bands on the reverse. He said if I could find another one with full bands he&#039;d pay me $40. And so I started looking for that date and others and soon discovered that some Mercury dimes...1943-D, 1944-D, etc...always come with full bands, and some so-called easy dates in Uncirculated condition are really rare with full bands. By 1976, I had convinced the Coin Dealer Newsletter owner/editor Allen Harriman to list separate full band prices in the CDN and the market soon gained traction. Today, the 1945-P with fully struck crossbands Mercury dime is one of the great condition rarities of numismatics, a Gem non-bands is $20 or so, and a Gem with full bands is a five figure coin.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>An analogous and more well known example is the 1953-S Franklin half dollar with full bell lines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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