1945 10c Winged Liberty Mercury Dime Broadstruck NGC MS65 Full Bands.
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.”
The additional broadstrike mint error places this already rare coin in another class. The rare among the rare.
