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1916-D 10C MS66 Full Bands NGC. While the Denver Mint

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1916-D 10C MS66 Full Bands NGC. While the Denver Mint
<B>1916-D 10C MS66 Full Bands NGC.</B></I> While the Denver Mint was certainly busy producing silver coins at the end of 1916, its efforts were not evenly distributed. Using four pairs of dies, mint employees struck 264,000 examples of the new Mercury dime design in November. After this limited mintage, they switched their efforts to the Barber quarter and hurriedly produced 6,540,000 pieces between then and the end of the year. While the quarter is plentiful in all grades up to and including MS65, the 1916-D Mercury dime is a well known rarity that is well represented on collectors' wish lists.<BR> For the specialist who will accept nothing but the best, we offer the present Gem. One's eye is immediately drawn to the central bands, and they are fully separated from end to end. The balance of the devices are equally well impressed and the surfaces display an untoned appearance overall. Lustrous, mark-free, and worthy of the finest Mercury dime collection. Census: 7 in 66, 2 finer (1/06).