Half dime brings more than plug nickel - CNN story

Shamika

CNN Story

Scioto

Looks like there's some big money in Columbus this week.

Barndog

The story was on my local news channel this morning. Despite showing pictures of the coin (clearly showing the words "half disme") and saying "half disme" a few times, the reporter kept calling it a ten-cent piece. I'm sure some non-numismatists picked up on the error also.

Compa

At least my local station manged to refer to it as a half dime.

morgannut2

The Washington DC local station had a long segment on it last night and showed some other coins too from the auction. But they called it a dime too. At least the pictiures were better than Heritage's!

mrearlygold

Conder101

<< <i>the reporter kept calling it a ten-cent piece. I'm sure some non-numismatists picked up on the error also. >>


Well it does have the word Disme on it and they were smart enough to figure out that that meant "Dime" So it must be a dime right? Ok it does have the word "half" on it as well, but who ever heard of a "half dime" now really. Of course they still have the problem "How do you pronounce Disme?" So they avoided the whole problem, and made themselves look like fools to the knowledgeable, by just calling it a ten cent piece.

Could have been worse. Since it was half a dime they could have referred to it as a nickel.