Mercury and barber dimes old but made to many

[49er12]

Folks we find these dimes 100 years old some, they made to many to be valuable. Which are more demanding if any. Enjoyment is still there but what is valuable or in demand.

 

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[smokeythecat]

A few key dates and very fine to uncirculated. Thats about it.

 

[fistfulladirt]

My dirtfishing buddy dug a 1916 D merc locally, he sure does seem to have all the luck.

 

[Tpmetal]

my 1921d I found has history of selling for a few hundred

 

[FreeBirdTim]

A roll of Barber dimes sells for $150 to $200 on eBay, so that's not bad. A roll of Mercury dimes sells for $110 to $150, which isn't too shabby either. But you are correct, they did mint a ridiculous amount of Mercs. The Barber dime mintages weren't that high overall, though.

 

[smokeythecat]

Right now prices are up due to inherent cost of silver. When silver nose dives again, prices will also nose dive on the common dates. Its a continuing cycle.

 

[49er12]

Barber harder to find, slq quarter hard, v nickels I find , Indian pennies, wheat to, modern

 

[49er12]

Once again folks don’t hold your breath on those meter or vdi numbers, silver dimes not always the number they say, and for others to, dig the darn thing, if your to tired take a sit down, I no all about the ups and down, can’t afford to hire a digger.

 

[Clad2Silver]

The largest amount of Mercury dimes minted in a given year was 343 million in 1944. Compare that to the mintage of Roosevelt dimes in 2015......3 BILLION, 30 million.......roughly 10 times the amount but our population today isn't 10 times what it was in 1944. Therefore we are minting WAY too many dimes now but yet they tell us there's a coin shortage.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Yup, no demand for pennies, but they minted over 7.5 BILLION of them last year. What's the point?

 

[GoDeep]

Yup, no demand for pennies, but they minted over 7.5 BILLION of them last year. What's the point?

Because modern pennies corrode away into nothing after a year or two in the ground...lol.

 

[49er12]

Sure do modern pennies vdi is different a little from older ones I believe to. So what’s valuable in reason as far as pennies nickels and dimes and quarter go. I don’t detect because of that if so I’d stop, it’s everything else that’s in ground to folks you no

 

[smokeythecat]

I had some coins once. They are all gone now.

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

A roll of Barber dimes sells for $150 to $200 on eBay, so that's not bad. A roll of Mercury dimes sells for $110 to $150, which isn't too shabby either. But you are correct, they did mint a ridiculous amount of Mercs. The Barber dime mintages weren't that high overall, though.

Consider the period of time those minted in high numbers
- the good ol' USA may have been going into a reconstruction period
- or the lower mintage's account for maybe the fewer minted...?
My guess....

 

[bigscoop]

Like everything else the internet has killed a lot of collectible markets because things are much easier to find and to get now. What was rare and difficult to locate not so long ago are now commonplace and easily accessed on the internet. Add to this that the internet also provided everyone with a global marketplace and it's easy to see why most collectible markets have suffered.

 

[smokeythecat]

Basically, you can get every since Indian Cent, Lincoln Cent, Merc Dime or Roosevelt dime for a collection if you want to. Only a few will be pricey. Wouldn't it be cool to find some pre 1830 US Gold coins?

 

[49er12]

Gold coin period , why so hard to find. Nobody had them, or hid them.

 

[Trezurehunter]

1895 O Barber dimes and 1916 D Mercury dimes are two of the tougher dates. Although I've never dug either one, I do own both of them (pcgs certified) in my private collection. Maybe I'll luck out one day, and pull one from the dirt. I have dug 4 - 1916 Mercs, but no D's.