Newbie - Giant Bag Of Mercury Dimes Causing Anxiety

I agree with the starting an album just to see if you can find one of each date/mm. Would be cool to find all the key dates even if you are missing a few at the end you may want to purchase the few dates you are missing to finish off the set. It will also be a good way to keep up with what you have found

And too congradulations on getting those. My suggestion is to either purchase something called the Red Book by Whitman Publishing on coins. Also, you may want to coinsider purchasing a few Albums to put those in so as to stop further touching, denting, scratching, them. Each such mark helps lower the value of those coins.
That book or most others on coin will show you were the Mint marks are and the quantity of each made.
More and more oddities are being found in that series also which makes for additional things to watch for. For example there is that famous 42/41 and the 42D/41. Those are Mercury dimes with a 1942 over a 1941 date. Also, lots of small and large Mint Marks aside from the famous 45 Micro S. Although sort of ignored by many the 4th lowest Minted coin in that series is the 1932D. And as noted look for the 16D, 21, 21D and 26S. Odd that there are less 31D's than the 26S but the 26S is really valued higher.
And oddity of Mercury dimes is the amount of them that have rotated reverses. In most instances not easy to detect. All US coins are made so when you flip them over top to bottom, they stay right side up. On probably 25% of all Mercury dimes the reverse is tilted either to the left or right by a sometimes great amount.
And the rotated reverses are rather ignored by most anyway. Even in the famous Red Book on coins, in the back, pages 404 and up on error types, those are not even mentioned.
Good luck with those and let us all know what you find.

I like how you calculate. Wanna buy some silver?

Well, there's a story behind the dimes, but I guess I'll never know. I mean, there's no quartes, nickles
half-dollars, nothing. Just dimes.

You could save on your eye's and just send them all to me.LOL

Also look for ones that have Full Split Bands. They command a premium.



Here is a site that should be useful;

http://mercurydime.net/

I would skip the album and or folder and buy 2x2s along with sheets and a binder. Or in this case, binders! I find that the square tubes work best for storage.

I find this all very confusing. I don't know what "Full Split Bands" mean. What does "2x2s along with sheets and a binder" mean.
I think I will haul this back into the back of my closet now.

dbd-

If you don't want to sell for sentimental reasons, try to put together a set. Once you find which ones you need, trade off duplicates for them. Common dimes have gone up 6-7 times in the last few years, and the harder to find ones haven't, so by trading for the ones you need, you're using fewer common coins per "key" coin than you would have five years ago.

The point of making a set is it will be something significant to keep in the family, where what you have now is just another pile of dimes. It's the difference between having a garage full of car parts and having a car.