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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2963222, member: 27832"]I honestly don't know. The low mintage was well-known from the beginning, so they were widely saved, and I'd expect more survivors proportionately than other dates. But I think it's, well, goofy to suppose that there are more of them around than the 1927 dime -- I see that date plenty in random lots of Mercs, along with 1926 and 1928, which have the same survival estimate as 1927. They're all surely less common than the 1940s dates -- those were minted in huge numbers, and didn't circulate as long -- but they're still common, a LOT more common than "100 available per state". I doubt many of them get submitted for grading at PCGS, though, just because they're common and not worth slabbing. But I would've hoped that PCGS would have the common sense to factor that into their survival calculation! Edit: having had a look in the Red Book Guide to Mercury Dimes (and whatever else they crammed into the same volume), I think I was overstating the survivorship of 1916-D dimes. According to that reference, they weren't saved from the beginning, partly because few collectors cared about mint marks at that time. Supporting evidence: there are lots and lots of 1916-D dimes in very low grades, indicating that they circulated a long time before anyone picked them.[/QUOTE]