AboutMyCoin1929 Mercury Dime (No Mint Mark) in VF25
A 1929 Mercury dime with no mint mark graded VF25 is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and VF25 is what a grader called the surface that survived. What that looks like on this coin is below. The nearest grade of this date this site does have a researched figure for is Very Fine (VF-20), at $11 to $17, from sales and public data.
What VF25 means
A 1929 Mercury dime with no mint mark in Very Fine (VF-25) sits between the two ends of Very Fine: the high points of the wing and the hair above Liberty’s ear are flattened across more of their area than at thirty and less than at twenty, the horizontal bands across the middle of the fasces and the tops of its rods keep their major detail, and LIBERTY around the cap, the date, and the designer’s AW below the neck are sharp. The three Very Fine rungs are one coin at three degrees of the same wear, which is why a grader can move a coin between them and a buyer can rarely see it.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade VF-25. They are the same grade and the same 1929 Mercury dime with no mint mark.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1929 Mercury dime with no mint mark is given run from PO1 to MS70. One step up from VF25 is Very Fine (VF-30). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
A blank in the value column is a grade this site has not researched, not a grade the coin is worth nothing in.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1929 Mercury dime with no mint mark in VF25, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. Until this site has a researched figure for this grade, that search is the answer — take the middle of several recent sales rather than the highest.
Completed sales of a 1929 Mercury Dime (No Mint Mark) in VF25 →
The metal floor under it
$4.65
0.0723 troy oz silver × $64.38 per troy ounce
$64.38/ozt, based on spot prices at 23 September 2026 19:59 UTC
Whatever the market does, a 1929 Mercury dime with no mint mark cannot be worth less than the metal in it. That figure is what the premium for VF25 is measured against, and it moves with the metal price rather than with the coin market.
Where these figures come from
We gather publicly available data from several public sources including eBay, PCGS, NGC, Numista, USA Coin Book, PriceCharting, and others.
Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.
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