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To: Gasshog

that’s all my dad talked about...the 55 double die. plus he was looking from some goofy mercury dimes...


3,000 posted on 02/10/2025 7:57:37 PM PST by stylin19a ( If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.)
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To: stylin19a

I think my Grandad believed their value would go up, he never checked the pennies as he got them just put them in coffee cans.

I guess my Uncle, his son thought the same thing, in his later years he told me my Uncle asked for the penny horde when he passes - I said, Fine I want to move soon...lugging thousands of pennies was not in my plans!


3,024 posted on 02/10/2025 9:03:54 PM PST by Gasshog
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To: stylin19a

1916-D is the merc key date. I saw where a guy found a wicker wrapped wine bottle in the rafters of a Florida barn getting demo’d some years back a something like close to 200 of them in the bottle were 16-D’s. If they were AU, (almost uncirculated) or gradeable Mint State (MS, scale 60-70 w/70 being essentially perfect), that’d be around 250K or more now.

You put that many on the market at once though, you might push that price down 😜


3,041 posted on 02/10/2025 10:10:30 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: stylin19a
plus he was looking from some goofy mercury dimes...

Goofy? You find a 1916-D mercury dime in decent shape, it will bring you several thousand dollars. Only 264,000 were minted!
3,048 posted on 02/10/2025 10:53:37 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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