1945-S Mercury Dime Toning Pattern

Anybody else notice this? I'm talking about the pattern on the reverse, with the vertical stripe thing going on...

That could be... There may have been a roll of 1945-S dimes, all stored in the same orientation in the roll or something like that, and it was broken up and sent off to TPGs, and those 50 dimes are now floating around the marketplace. They are all of pretty similar quality too - high grade (MS66 and higher) with a small minority having full bands.

I guess it's up to me to track them all down and reunite them.

Mystery solved!

I stumbled across some more information on these from this thread. Apparently a hoard of these (all high-grade 1945-S) was submitted to NGC in the 1990s. They had been stored in dime savings cards from banks (like these). The idea was that the bank would give you these cards, and you'd put a dime in a slot every day or week, and before you knew it, you'd have saved up a few bucks and you'd take the card back to the bank.



Looking at the cards, it's pretty obvious how they would create that toning pattern. Someone might naturally put all the dimes in with the exact same orientation like you would in a coin album or folder.

Never knew that! Always learning something new here on this forum!

Thank's Captain,I learned something new today.Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?LOL

There were a couple last time I looked, actually. I've been looking for a nice FB example, but it appears that only a small minority of that particular hoard had full bands (not surprising given the production quality of dimes in San Francisco at the time). There was one on Teletrade the other day, but it was MS67FB and too rich for my blood; it didn't meet the reserve apparently.

For the most part they all look very nice, but the dude that is selling them or I should say trying to sell them has them over priced for the most part.

I really enjoyed the Monster ms-68 looking coin, but didn't look at the price though.