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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;toned_morgan, post: 3220489, member: 97258&quot;]I recently found out that there are numerous 1939-D MS69 Mercury dimes (more than I expected), so I hopped over to PCGS CoinFacts to see these amazing MS69 FB 1939-D Mercuries, and noticed a trend. When you scroll down looking at the pictures, I saw that about one in every two coins pictured from MS67 to MS69 grades have a cool rainbow stripe tone pattern on the obverse, and usually no toning or full rainbow toning on the reverse. The bands of bright white untoned luster are all about the same size, and I was very confused about this. Is there a person collecting PQ 1939-D Mercury dimes with that specific toning and sending them all in to PCGS to grade? Is someone buying high grade Mercury dimes and cooking up the toning and sending them all to PCGS for grading? The only reason this type of toning could naturally appear would be if someone had hoarded an album full of super gem grade &#039;39-D that were kept there with a plastic strip going across and covered with some paper. If you know why so many of these Mercury dimes have this toning, please tell me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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