1856-S Seated Dime: First dime struck at the San Francisco mint.

1846 Seated Dime: A Philadelphia issues dime struck in very small quantities.

Heavily worn examples are scarce and almost unknown in nice condition.

1843-O Seated Dime: The branch mint dime from New Orleans is the first key rare dime of the Seated series.

1822 Capped Bust Dime: Collectors know dimes were minted in 1822 by the few remaining.

Most were lost to circulation and those remaining are a rare part of history.

1804 Bust Dime: Few were minted and very few survive today.

Histrionically significant, only 22,135 minted, becoming the first rare dime. A long running series containing many date and mintmark combinations and always welcome by coin dealers. The next series in the line of dime production is the Seated Liberty design. Here again all are rare dimes being either scarce or rare with very few of the original mintage surviving until today.Ī heavily worn example represents the condition of the majority of the dimes from these first two designs. Theses first classic colonial dimes are of great interest and value to collectors.īeginning in 1809 a new Capped Bust design was introduced and continued until 1837.

The entire series of this design type is rare. Dime production began in 1796 and the early 'Bust' dimes are some of the most sought after of all U.S.

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