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1945 Dime, MS67+ Full Bands
The Single Finest Full Bands Coin Known
An Unprecedented Registry Set Offering

1945 10C MS67+ Full Bands PCGS. CAC. There are not many high-grade 1945 dimes with Full Bands definition. This is arguably the rarest issue in high-grade Full Bands after the 1920s, and it is the unquestioned key to the World War II short set in Full Bands. A significant price gap began to emerge in the 1970s between the extremely common weak strikes and Full Bands coins, and it is a price gap that has continuously widened ever since. The advent of Registry Sets in recent years has spurred additional traction in collector demand for high-end Full Bands examples of the 1945 Mercury dime. As David Hall writes on the PCGS CoinFacts reference page, "a Gem non-bands is $20 or so, and a Gem with full bands is a five figure coin."

There are currently 155 PCGS Basic Mercury Dime Registry Sets in existence or being assembled. NGC lists another 419 complete series sets on their Registry. The combined PCGS and NGC population of Superb Gem Full Bands coins is exactly five: three MS67s and an MS67+ at PCGS, and a lone MS67 at NGC (11/17). The NGC coin is in the current finest NGC Registry Set. The MS67 PCGS coin plated on CoinFacts is in the current finest PCGS Registry Set. If no resubmissions pollute the population figures, there are no more than three other Condition Census coins known. The Plus-graded PCGS coin offered here is the sole finest 1945 Full Bands dime in existence.

Placing a value on this piece is a futile endeavor. No Superb Gem has been auctioned since 2009, when we sold the NGC coin for $25,300 (Heritage, 8/2009). The last time a PCGS MS67 Full Bands appeared at auction was in our April 2001 Central States Signature sale, where the price record for this issue was set at $43,125. Not only this is a fresh piece emerging into a new, active market, it is finer than any previous coin ever offered. A new price record is virtually a certainty, and we eagerly look forward to placing this piece in an unparalleled Mercury dime collection.

Blazing, frosty luster displays as silvery-white but yields delicate hints of iridescence when rotated beneath a light. The fasces bands are bold, both the horizontal and diagonal ones. Extended examination with a loupe fails to find a single mentionable flaw with this coin. Truly the finest 1945 Full Bands dime known. CAC: 1 in 67 Full Bands, 0 finer (12/17).(Registry values: N4719)

Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 23KE, PCGS# 5057, Greysheet# 4522)

Weight: 2.49 grams

Metal: 90% Silver, 10% Copper

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