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<p>[QUOTE="Omegaraptor, post: 7276751, member: 76105"]Long time no see, CT! </p><p><br /></p><p>Decided to go to the LCS yesterday, something I can’t do very often right now with lots of essays/projects due in place of exams. Spent about $30 on junk silver dimes/quarters, added a bit more to my PMs stack ($1.45 FV in total). The Mercury Dime tray was on top of the case, implying someone had just looked through it as I entered. Decided to see if they had missed anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a bit of searching, I came across one with AU level details (some mint luster on the reverse too) and very dark obverse toning - in the low-light coin shop, I could see the S mintmark and that the date was 192-something (definitely not a common 40s Merc!), but looking through a loupe showed the last digit was a 5. Unfortunately, there is a scratch on the obverse in front of Liberty’s nose, but with these details, still worth quite a bit more than 21x face.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1275279[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1275280[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Didn’t find another 34 DDO in the quarters, but I found this. When you’re looking through lots of circulated 30s and 40s Washingtons they just stick out like a sore thumb when you find one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1275283[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1275284[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Omegaraptor, post: 7276751, member: 76105"]Long time no see, CT! Decided to go to the LCS yesterday, something I can’t do very often right now with lots of essays/projects due in place of exams. Spent about $30 on junk silver dimes/quarters, added a bit more to my PMs stack ($1.45 FV in total). The Mercury Dime tray was on top of the case, implying someone had just looked through it as I entered. Decided to see if they had missed anything. After a bit of searching, I came across one with AU level details (some mint luster on the reverse too) and very dark obverse toning - in the low-light coin shop, I could see the S mintmark and that the date was 192-something (definitely not a common 40s Merc!), but looking through a loupe showed the last digit was a 5. Unfortunately, there is a scratch on the obverse in front of Liberty’s nose, but with these details, still worth quite a bit more than 21x face. [ATTACH=full]1275279[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1275280[/ATTACH] Didn’t find another 34 DDO in the quarters, but I found this. When you’re looking through lots of circulated 30s and 40s Washingtons they just stick out like a sore thumb when you find one. [ATTACH=full]1275283[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1275284[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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