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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 419683, member: 4552&quot;]Haven&#039;t been using this web site since I have to spend so much time scrolling back and forth. Only web site like that. Thought I&#039;d try it one more time since the Mercury Dime is my favorite coin or at least one of them.</p><p>Back to your questions about the Mercury Dimes and since I have approximately 3,000 of them or more. Presently 10 completed albums and contimplating on an 11th and 12th set. </p><p>Here is some things to ponder about that collection. First of all note the mintages on the 31S and 31D. In fact the 31D is the 4th lowest mintage in that collection and yet very low priced even in higher grades. Also, note that any coin with a mintage in the one million minted range will become difficult to find soon enough with our population at 300,000,000 in the USA. </p><p>If you can find any of the 26S, 31D, 31S dates if I were you I&#039;d grab them now. </p><p>Depending on what type of album you are using, some don&#039;t have a slot for the 45 micro S. Some do not have slots for the 42/41 and/or the 42D/41. </p><p>If you use a Whitman Classic Album you could acquire blank pages and the binder will hold two sets of Dimes. Something I do but most don&#039;t. Whitman also sells Gold press on numbers and letters so you can title those blank pages. With that system you could provide slots for anything you wanted.</p><p>You may note that although the 45 micro S is popular, many of the other dates also have large and small mint marks. A lot more than listed in the Red Book.</p><p>Here is an oddity that is seldom mentioned about the Mercury Dimes. If you place them in an album or in 2x2&#039;s and the fronts are all nicely verticle and you turn them over, probably 1/4 of them will have a slight reverse rotation. Out of all my 3,000 I find that about 1/4 are that way. What is odd is that in the back of the Red Book for error types there is no mention of a rotated reverse on any coins. And some are rotated as much as 90 degrees. Most are only slightly rotated. </p><p>You may want to try flea markets for those also. At one flea market there used to be a person that sold coins. He would just dump them in a bin. He had little knowledge of any value. All coins were $1 and the more you bought, the cheaper they were. So far I&#039;ve purchased almost a thousand from him and some were the 42/41, 26S, 31D and many, many others. I usually paid about $0.90 each since I would buy as many as he had.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Her is the sad part. I showed him the Red Book and a copy of the Numismatic News. His prices are now outrageous.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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