I have a short blog for you guys today.  A Mercury Dime that I won at auction.  ( Now that's a surprise, right!)   I thought it had some really cool, unusual and angular toning patterns on it.  It's a 1945-D, the last year of the Mercury Dimes.  Graded by PCGS as a  MS66.  Unfortunately no full bands this time.  For some reason the percentage of full band specimens for this year is lower than usual for a "D" Mint mark dime of the 1940's.   This year also had a mintage of 40,245,000.  It ranks 55 out of the 77 Non-Proof Mercury Dimes from lowest to highest.   The Reverse is a blast white finish, while the Obverse is what caught my eye.  It seems to me that perhaps this dime was on an "end" of a roll, causing such angular looking tone patterns and lines.   I've seen these type of toning patterns usually on Morgans and Peace Dollars...not too much on Mercury Dimes, so feel quite happy to have this one in my collection.  Thanks for looking at my blog.  All comments are welcome.

Hey Everybody, I thought you might enjoy another one of my toned Mercury Dimes.  This one I also won at auction. It's a 1941*** AU 58 graded by NGC.  This wasn't an expensive piece but I thought the toning was kinda wild!  You'll notice it was minted in the 1940's like my other one...and again it has toned also.  Whats with the 1940's and the toning of Mercury Dimes?  I don't know but whatever it is I love it!     ; )        Enjoy and have a great day!

As you might know I have a weakness for toned Mercury Dimes...    After a back and forth bidding war to the last few seconds I came out victorious!  ( Without going over budget )  Whew!    I was happy about that as I really wanted this beauty!  It's a 1937 Mercury Dime  MS66FB toned.  I have to say the photo's on the auction site didn't do to it justice, although beautiful,  when I had the actual dime in my hands the colors were even more brilliant and vivid than I could have imagined!  : )     I wanted to share with all of you this beautiful coin!