Mercury Value

I was tooling around the Heritage site after our previous discussion of Mercury Dimes and conditions. I often put a bunch of lowball bids in and if I win one, I can turn over the coin. In this case, I saw one that I decided to bid more seriously on and I put a max bid in which shockingly went straight to the top of the bid, and then I won it. The problem was, that it wasn't the coin I really thought I was bidding on and I'm looking at this thing and I can't help but feel that it is over graded in an old slab. I really didn't want this coin, but I'm stuck with it. Now I'm wondering what you would grade it and what you think would be a fair market value on it.

I'll say this, these Mercurys seem to flux in price quite a bit.

I'm wondering how much I've been soaked by this transaction.





http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_eisenhowser/heritage_merc_obv_2.jpg
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/coins/mercury_eisenhowser/heritage_merc_rev_2.jpg

 

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MS-62 FB ...market value is probably around $7, but if the coin is graded by a top tier service it might sell for a few dollars extra.

 

I agreed with you but others didn't.

How would you grade this one?
http://coins.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=21122&Lot_No=2096#Photo

Ruben

 

Ruben:
Nice Merc. But the second link doesn't have a picture.

 

Frank

You have to log into Heritage to see the pic i guess. What do you think of the grade on the first one?


Ruben

 

Ruben:
I really like it. There is little doubt that it is original. I'd guess from the pictures that it is an MS-63.

 

Maybe I should move this thread to the US coin section to get more grading opions?

Ruben

 

I'm going to lock this thread since you started the other one.
http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=25965

Speedy