My favorite coin in this column is a G-4 1916-D Mercury dime. It’s a coin I failed to find after many hours spent searching dime rolls. If I had found one during my roll-searching, however, it probably would have been in the same condition as the coin pictured here. Note: The line on Liberty’s cheek is not nearly as apparent on the actual coin as it is in my photo.
As you are undoubtedly aware, the 1916-D dime is the big key to the Mercury dime series. Its mintage of just 264,000 pieces is the lowest mintage in the series that ran from 1916 through 1945. In fact, there are no other Mercury dimes with
