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The silver "winged" liberty dime
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Hello and welcome to the Forum,

Please post closeups of the front and back of the coin so that others can give their opinions of it. I couldn't make out the date but it appears to be a circulated coin, so the chances of it being worth more than the silver content are not great. Good luck. (thumbsu

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This outfit has no connection with the US Mint or Government.  They went through a lot of effort to make a a common mercury dime look special.

It's hard to tell from the pic, but looks like a common 1940s date in circulated condition (there is nothing on the certificate to indicate it's anything else).  The dime is worth the silver melt value which is currently $1.65+/-.  Dealers/precious metal buyers will probably offer a little less. 

Taking a wild guess, this might be from the early 80s silver boom or shortly thereafter (only speculation), so there is a small chance somebody would be interested in the coin and cert as a novelty and offer a couple dollars extra on someplace like ebay.  IMO, it's probably not worth the time, hassle and cost to find a buyer.

BTW: The cert has an error.  The coin does not have 2.5 grams of precious metal (silver). The coin weighs 2.5 grams and contains 90% silver, so the precious metal content is less (2.25 gms or 0.0723 troy ounces)

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It has another error, too. Weinman's name is spelled wrong.

I wonder how they came up with a figure of 1000% for the "AVG INCREASE IN VALUE."  The card is copyrighted 1992, and the price of silver then was running $3.75 to $4.00 per ounce. That puts the melt value at 28 - 30 cents. 

Oldhoopster is right. That was a lot of trouble for a coin that you could have picked up at a coin show for probably 50 cents. Still, it is interesting, at least to me. I think the holder is worth more than the coin.

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On 10/12/2021 at 11:14 AM, Jason Abshier said:

Probably only worth melt value , the fancy fake knock off authentication doesn’t contribute any value for it either 

But.....but...LQQK closely.....the obverse is a very rare rotated die....must be worth thousands !!!!!!!!!!!******!!!!!

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On 10/12/2021 at 11:56 AM, RWB said:

But.....but...LQQK closely.....the obverse is a very rare rotated die....must be worth thousands !!!!!!!!!!!******!!!!!

I don’t want to look at it too closely , might start seeing fuzzy doubling will add more unnecessary value to this special specimen 

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