New Discovery! 1919 P Mercury Dime DDO!

That is incredible!

In terms of the major 20th century DDs, where would this one rank in terms of strength?

I think it's the strongest doubling known on a 20th century dime, but other denominations all have stronger doubles. There's a pretty long list of cents that are stronger.

It's hard to compare a confined Class IV Doubled Die with an impressive Class I - the 55/72/95 Lincolns are certainly impressive on their own. Even 83/84/70S/69S etc would be close spread-wise.

This is a bit more like the 1916/16 Buffalo, or even the 2009-D Duke Ellington Quarter with some dramatic spread, but very localized.

It will probably be the key Mercury dime Doubled Die (Along with the 42/41 Class III Doubled Die) if enough are found. I have a feeling as many have suggested - these are going to be very scarce.

Challenge accepted.

Coin World's full article is now online:

http://www.coinworld.com/insights/1...bverse.html#

They put a teaser story out a few days ago, and I saw one person say they found one on Facebook, but the post was removed, not sure if they were kidding, or they got tired of the bombardment of "Sell it to me" posts, but I still don't know of a 3rd piece being discovered yet.

Hopefully the print article will uncover some more.

Jeff

Only two means it's a dream coin except for the two deep pockets at the top who won't face much pressure. Ten is still ridiculously rare while offering sufficient examples for competition. I bet the Top Pop of 10 fetches more at auction than the Top Pop of two.

91o is running into this in another thread with an 1858 Seated Half variety - it's so darn rare nobody really knows about it and he got it for cheap by comparison to what it should be - a coin so rare Heritage has only ever offered one.

What? You complaining again just carl.