Coins On The Way Back!!

The label is simply the standard label used for detail graded coins. On detail graded coins the coin is guaranteed genuine only and the grade is not guaranteed. So just ignore that part of the label and what do you have? "1916-D 10C Not Encapsulated Altered mintmark"

SOP or not, it's a stupid message to send. "Genuine 1916, altered mm" would make sense, even using that generic sticker. Or take two seconds to cut off the "guaranteed authentic" part.

I can see a coin like that at a flea market or farm auction with "guaranteed authentic by NGC".

Mrs. Slick and I took a day trip and went to St. Louis a week ago. I took the 1916 dime with me and took it to Scotsman Coins, where a nice young man took one look at the coin and said it was a fake, which I was already sure of, and then explained to me how the mint mark was altered. I always thought there should have been some "marks" on the coin where they turned an "S" mint mark into a "D" mint mark, but he said the "D" was punched into the coin. Now my memory is not the greatest in the world and Mrs. Slick was to busy looking at jewelry to hear what he said, so can someone here please explain to me what he was talking about?

I am pretty sure thats what he said, because I remember him saying it was a "P" mintmark dime and then they would punch the "D" on it. Maybe he said the word punch and meant the way they put the "D" on the "P" dime.

I don't know, I guess its not really important.

Thanks mkman123!!

I was talking to Mrs. Slick the other day about what the guy said at Scotsmans and she thinks he used the word "pressed" instead of punched. Wish my memory was better.

I asked the guy from Scotsmans the very same question and he said it was illegal to own it, I don't know if it is or not though.

He is wrong, which makes his statement about how it was altered questionable as well. The only way to punch or impress a raised mintmark on a coin is by embossing it from the inside as was done on some Buffalo nickels. Bu the thinness of a dime makes this highly unlikely.

There are four ways to create a raised mintmark on a coin. You can glue or solder the mintmark on. You can alter an existing mintmark so that it resembles a different one. You can lower the fields around the "mintmark" and rework the existing metal to resemble the desired letter. You can mask off the coin and "grow" a mintmark using electroplating.

Well the acetone soak didn't remove anything.