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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LafayetteDollar, post: 1140522, member: 28853&quot;]The majority of serious Mercury Dime collectors want coins with full bands.&nbsp; Unlike some of the other strike designations, most date/mm in the Mercury Dime series are readily available with full bands.&nbsp; Only the 1945-P is truly rare with only 3% of the population have FB according to Lange.&nbsp; You will find that the non-full band coins are cheaper to buy but very difficult to sell, especially for the common dates which can easily be found with full bands.</p><p><br /></p><p>My advice is to buy full band coins unless the price of the coin becomes cost prohibitive.&nbsp; For example, let&#039;s say you start with a Mercury Dime short set 1934-1945 in GEM BU+.&nbsp; The stopper (other than 1945-P) is the 1939-S.&nbsp; You can buy an MS67 for less than $200 whereas the MS65 FB will cost more than $600.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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