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Message:: [QUOTE="Strik9, post: 24483842, member: 112403"]To finish a collection? If so… yay! If not. Well… hey so here’s a true story. Before I got into numismatics, or should I say — before I knew what the hell I was doing, one day I was desperate for some cash and decided to auction off a set of 7 mercury dimes (which originally had the following coins: 1917, 1925, 1934, 1935-D, 1936-S, 1945, and a 1945-D (FB). However, after I had sold it, I realized that I had should not have listed the 1945-D as having full bands. So, I decided to thrown in a random Merc for free, as I didn’t want to get dinged by Ebay for false information. (BTW, I DIDN’T HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT ANYTHING WAS WORTH). I asked the buyer to pick from a list of 20 or so Merc dimes that I had in a sealed capsule. She picked the 1916-D (which — no offense, was in far better shape than this one. It was likely a VF 25-35. Yep. And all of this the buyer was able to get for a whopping $11. Learned my lesson.[/QUOTE]