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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Specksynder, post: 955963, member: 22410&quot;]I&#039;m tempted to put up a &quot;guess the grade&quot; thread, but I&#039;ll avoid the suspense... There aren&#039;t many slabs in this condition... instead of a Top-Pop it&#039;s a Bottom-Bob:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.ideasite.net/coins/fr2slab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So the story is, each of granddad&#039;s Whitman Mercury Dime folders had the 1916-D slot filled.&nbsp; The local experts helped identify the two that really had no mintmark and we sent one off to find an altered mintmark, but they were a little busy the day I brought this one in, so they said, &quot;if you wanna be sure, let&#039;s send it in.&quot;&nbsp; So our 1916-D came back an authentic 1916-S.&nbsp; Graded FR-2 (with no details!!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think I can get SGS to call is mint state?</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any slabs graded a &quot;1&quot; from any of the TPGs?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are closer views of this beauty:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.ideasite.net/coins/fr2zoom.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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