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Bedrock of the Community
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Recently I saw the following coin at the top of the 1916-D Mercury dime full bands condition census. It is graded MS67FB CAC and also boasts the 2 highest recorded auction prices paid for a 1916-D Mercury dime, $207,000 in 2010 and $204,000 in 2020. However, this coin has a large area of abrasion in the neck of Liberty. Do you believe that this coin deserves its grade, its position as the highest graded coin for this key date, and by far, the highest price paid for this coin twice over? Personally, I would not buy this coin due to the prominent neck abrasion.      Here is another graded MS67FB. This one has 3 pinholes in the jaw below the ear and a small void or chip in the obverse field by the T and Y in LIBERTY. Also, the obverse inside rim looks chewed up from 10 to 12 o'clock in the obverse. Is this coin really superb gem in your view? This coin sold for $96K in 2018, but I don't think it deserves its superb gem grade near the top of the coin's condition census. What do you think?      IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
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Pillar of the Community
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 This is what I was referring to when I said I've never seen a 1916-D as beautiful as your coin. I was at MS-65 FB, and I don't have any quibbles with their MS-66 FB for your coin. I do have quibbles with some of the other graded coins. There are a couple coins out there that would make MS-67, but they lack the eye appeal. Eye appeal matters. I would choose your coin over those. |
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There are people that will buy the holder and not the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
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I do like your coin better.
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Bedrock of the Community
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No doubt, your coin is far better than the two above. Buy the coin, not the holder.
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Bedrock of the Community
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on the $200k coin they love those highly toned coins and from what I have seen are willing to overlook a few flaws and bump the grade for it. so it would not surprise me that that coin without that toning may have been a 66FB or 66+. Also, I think there is something that goes on at the higher end of collectors when they submit a coin versus the everyday collector and finally consider that MS67 is not the highest grade.
this just affirms your coin was an excellent purchase and well worth the long wait to snatch a fine example. imo, your coin is superior to the $96k coin. I would choose yours all day over that one.
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I am in the basement shopping for mine, but you do give us something to consider.  |
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