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Sale 2
Coins, Manuscript and Collectibles Auction
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Lot 1227 |
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1928. MS-64. Lightly toned and choice.
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| Realized
$98 |
Lot 1228 |
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1929. NGC graded MS-67. A sparkling gem that has light toning on both sides. Nearly full bands, but not quite.
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$150 |
Lot 1229 |
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1929. MS-65. Abundant luster and with light toning.
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$40 |
Lot 1230 |
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1930-S. MS-63. A scarce date, nice luster but the usual weak central strike.
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| Realized
$63 |
Lot 1231 |
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1931-D. MS-64. Well struck throughout, with nearly complete separation on the bands. Peripheral toning on both sides.
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$75 |
Lot 1232 |
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A Monster 1942/1 Overdate Mercury Dime. NGC graded MS-68. Supremely beautiful for a Mercury Dime. The luster is ablaze and glistens off the fields. The lightest toning has started to form, around the periphery of the obverse and reverse. As to the central bands, they are nearly full with complete separation at the centers. If you want the finest, then here it is.
This is the highest graded 1942/1 Dime as reported in the NGC and PCGS Pop Reports--and in reality it just has to be the finest known. In fact, it stands heads and shoulders above all the others graded: there isn't a single MS67 to compete with it. If you want one with Full Bands, you have to drop to the MS64 level or below. So perhaps this is an ideal time to bid to buy this coin, when Mercury dimes are still out of favor and little investment pressure has been placed upon them to take them out of the reach of ardent collectors. Here we have a staggeringly beautiful specimen of this popular and famous overdate which is clearly the best of its kind. It is without a doubt worthy of inclusion in the finest Mercury Dime set.
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Lot 1233 |
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1942/1 Overdate. PCGS graded MS-64. A very choice coin, well struck too, with nearly full bands on the reverse. Untoned and very difficult to locate in this choice state of preservation. Naked eye overdate, with no attempt made to cover over the earlier final "1" of the date before adding the "2". A classic Mint blunder, and one of the key dates to the Mercury Dime series. No mean task to locate one this nice!
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$3,623 |
Lot 1234 |
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Rare 1945 Dime with Full Bands, ICG graded MS 64. ICG graded MS-64 Full Bands. Frosty and untoned, with the all-important central reverse bands just separated. For some reason coining pressure on 1945 Philadelphia dimes was turned down a notch, enough to extend die life, but not enough to strike up the bands very often. Hence very few of the Full Bands coins are known of this date.
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$805 |
Lot 1235 |
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1946 to 1980-S. A date and mint run of Roosevelt Dimes from 1946 through 1980-S. Uncirculated to Proof. Mounted in a Whitman coin album. Many show some toning. Lot of 90 coins.
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