Boston Show Find and Comments

Dismeguy

Noted a few posts about the Bay State show. Had a chance to attend with Mr HalfDime, enjoying a nice ride down from Maine and a great dinner at Legal Seafood before heading back home.

From a seated dime perspective, the show was a B-/B. Not too many seated dimes in general, and most seen in mint state holders were common dates. It is becoming tougher and tougher to locate nice seated dimes at all but the larger shows like ANA, FUN etc...

Having said this, I did buy one dime from a board member that is worth noting. It is an 1865-S dime (Obverse 1 paired with Reverse that is in a late die state with a reverse rim cud at 12:00. Reverse B is severely eroded with the denticles all but gone. The flat head on the obverse is so typical of dimes struck with Obverse 1. I had previously seen this variety once listed on a pricelist but never in person. Here are the photographs. This dime and variety are now listed as 1865-S F-102a at www.seateddimevarieties.com.

Cladiator

That's cool. Did they continue to use that reverse die until it shattered? If so I'd love to see some of the even later states with multiple cracks in it.

mgoodm3

Nice find.

NumisOxide

Neat seated dime. Nice cud on the reverse.

Dismeguy

This is the latest 1865-S Reverse B die state that I am aware of. It was about time that the SF mint retired this reverse die, since the die was used in 1861 and 1862, sat around the SF mint until 1865, then was put back in service to strike a few more dimes (with this type of mushy reverse)

Coinosaurus

<< <i>Had a chance to attend with Mr HalfDime, enjoying a nice ride down from Maine and a great dinner at Legal Seafood before heading back home.
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Legal Seafood rocks, I wish they had one here in Chicago. Btw, the coin is nice too

MikeInFL

Neat find, Gerry. Thanks for sharing...Mike

p.s. you guys don't know what real seafood is. Hint: you don't buy it.

Dismeguy

p.s. you guys don't know what real seafood is. Hint: you don't buy it.

Mike, we have real seafood up here in Maine..... its called lobster..... nothing in the world can match a Maine lobster, of course with beer and butter

MrHalfDime

Gerry, I'm not sure that is what he was refering to. And by the way, it's "lobstah".

MikeInFL

I concur with the lobster statement. That's real seafood.

I was referring to catching a fish and preparing it within hours of it being caught. That's real seafood.

MikeInFL

p.s. but I'd take the dime in a Florida minute over any fish or lobster meal.