I have a short blog for you guys today.  A Mercury Dime that I won at auction.  ( Now that's a surprise, right!)   I thought it had some really cool, unusual and angular toning patterns on it.  It's a 1945-D, the last year of the Mercury Dimes.  Graded by PCGS as a  MS66.  Unfortunately no full bands this time.  For some reason the percentage of full band specimens for this year is lower than usual for a "D" Mint mark dime of the 1940's.   This year also had a mintage of 40,245,000.  It ranks 55 out of the 77 Non-Proof Mercury Dimes from lowest to highest.   The Reverse is a blast white finish, while the Obverse is what caught my eye.  It seems to me that perhaps this dime was on an "end" of a roll, causing such angular looking tone patterns and lines.   I've seen these type of toning patterns usually on Morgans and Peace Dollars...not too much on Mercury Dimes, so feel quite happy to have this one in my collection.  Thanks for looking at my blog.  All comments are welcome.