1967 Roosevelt Dime, Do I Attempt A Gentle Bicarbonate Soda On This Beauty?

with Frog here.
sorry to say here, but you may want to stop using that app to grade coins - this dime if fay and away from a MS60 (MS anything)

However if you have a need to wash your coin use pure 100% Acetone to soak in over night - it will not harm your coins.

Staff - thanks for the edit. I did read the rules, but neglected to put the coin in the title - thank you for correcting my error and I shall endeavour to be more observant in future.

Thank you for your comments folks! Very helpful. I suspected that the app was wrong (sure, the shiny side looks great, but the other side, nah!) which is basically the reason that I joined this forum, so I could get the opinions of people who know a whole lot more about this hobby than I do!

The estimated/suggested price range for my particular example of the '67 dime is £0.43 - £11 (I resubmitted the grading using different photograph of the coin, and it came back with XF40).

The app is getting these prices from the market - I'm trying to find out where/whom it is monitoring in order for it to determine the 30-day average market price it claims to be. The range for the MS60 graded coin was £1 - £696. I'd like to know who is paying nearly 700 quid for a standard 1967 dime though & .

It's not a silver dime, just a typical 1967 variety. Regarding the 1967 coin however, these were only minted in one location and famously were minted without a minted mark. Its the only dime to be minted without one (I forget the range, 1967 for sure, but I think 68 and 69 as well? I was researching this last month when I was given the coin).
So because ofthae lack of mint mark, it does make the 1967 coin rather more interesting to a collecter than, say, a 1970 or a 1960.

I didnt mean mint mark, though - I meant the other mark, the designer initial(s) to the left of the date - to me it looks like it's doubled and/or ridged compared to another 1967 dime. Also the wording of In God We Trust looks a little double-stampy. Maybe its my imagination, but when I zoomed in more, the Liberty is raised a little more. But definately the designers initial is stamped wrong. It should be clearly readable, and mine is not. And its not patina.

Thanks again fir your help, comments and time. Nice to meet you!

https://craftbuds.com/1967-roosevel...20the%20time.

The interesting info about the 67 dime, I'm probably telling this information to nobody, you're all going to know more about this than me. But I find it fascinating, the 1965 Coinage Act was when they changed the metal content of the dime. It became the nickel/copper composite that remains largely the same today.

The first dimes were put into circulation on January 30th, the anniversary of Roosevelt's birthday. Over two billion of these coins were minted in Philadelphia in 1967. That mint was the only mint to make the dimes in 1967, so they didn't put a mint mark on it! Makes my coin special in my eyes anyway. &

For common U.S. coin prices, you can check the Red Book, gray sheet, and PCGS.com.

AI apps might be decent for coin identification, but they won't be accurate for grading. I say that as a software engineer. We are decades away from AI being worthwhile at a task like that, and grading can be subjective.

As others have mentioned, pure acetone for coin cleaning. Not nail polish remover, you need the stuff from an auto or hardware store.

If your coin has patina, that corrosion might have pitted or damaged the metal surface. Stripping it might reveal a damaged surface.

There was a strong Doubled Die Obverse on certain 1967 dimes. You can observe it on the letters of In God We Trust. We can definitely help with that, but you would need to post a sharp, in-focus image of what you are seeing. That is a challenge with a phone. I have a cheap little magnifier that I use for that job.

http://www.varietyvista.com/07%20Ro...7PDDO001.htm

Note that 1967 dimes in VF to XF grades are still fairly common in circulation in the US. You would have a reasonable chance of finding one by getting about 100 dimes from a bank.

From the craftbuds article:


They must have meant Mercury dimes.

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