Some Additions To My Mercury Dimes And Other Parts Of My Collection After A 2 Year Dry Spell

This is true. Mine are all in 2x2 flips and then in a 20 slotted plastic sheet. Not really worth it to take them out to photo them. And through all that plastic, just can't really see details well.

Well, its official. The last group of 4 sets of coins are enroute ... still in their folders. It will be interesting to find out if the 2 merc sets have any coins on page 3. The last set had 25 of 27, I think. The Roosevelt sets don't have any dated ports on page 3, but you never know what "extras" could be hidden there. Probably none, but we'll have to wait and see.

This feature may be the only "up" side to Whitman folders. They don't do the coins any good, but that flap that covers page 3 is a nice feature from time to time.

Chance

I'll be getting to check these 4 sets out tomorrow morning.

Boy, the US Postal service is giving themselves some real "cushion" this holiday season. These were sent via priority mail on tuesday, and they were projecting a Saturday delivery. They're an hour from my PO now and enroute to my PO as of 5 pm today (Wednesday)

One of these days I'll get fooled ... hopefully not this time.

Chance

Good luck!

Excellent!

I think the 1917-S will prove to be an OK acquisition. Its certainly nicer than the one it will replace.

I've logged a lot of hours lately looking for FB coins, especially that elusive 1945-P. I began looking at "short sets" a week or so ago. I found one such set, in a Capital Plastics holder, on ebay being sold by a private individual who does not collect or deal (ie: cherry pick) coins and sets (like I'm doing), and though the picture left a lot to be desired, the coins all look very well struck, with distinct central bands. The 45-P looks really encouraging, though I don't really think my luck will run that way ... but who knows. It has a distinct central band that looks pretty strong. I guess saturday or maybe monday, we'll all find out, but its anybody's guess until then.

In assembling my collection, until JustCarl mentioned the FB coins (which I'd not considered much), my primary criteria when setting coins aside from sets I was buying, was flash and luster, along with the coins being as free from gouges and detractions as possible, particularly of those coins from the post 1934 period. Of the 15 issues in the short set (41-45), I had unwittingly picked up 9 with Full Bands. Maybe this set will provide some of the other 6, and maybe it won't.

One thing's for sure. I think there's precious little hope of picking up a 45-P FB by perusing thousands of individually listed coins. If I do score one ... it will likely be in this manner...or maybe stuffed into a Thumb Buster folder.... like the 21-P I picked up.

That's my thought process going in. I was able to negotiate a price that leaves me in a good position even if it turns out to be less than I'd hoped for...a hair over 8 dollars per coin for blast white BU mercs fits my budget OK right now. I have a few FB later date duplicates, so even if I do pull a few coins from the set and release it back into the wild, it won't go back out with no desirable coins in the set.

Chance

Seems that one turned out very nice!