Seated Dime experts - - have you ever seen an 1874 dime with one arrow?

RichieURich

In Brian Greer's book The Complete Guide to Liberty Seated Dimes, he lists No. 102 "No Arrows", the arrows have either been filled in the die or were weakly punched and show only very faintly. Rare. I just bought an 1874 dime with a complete left arrow but the right arrow is 99.9% missing. Has anyone seen a similar one, or is this an earlier die state of the one with both arrows missing?

Regulated

That sounds like a very cool filled die.

Coinosaurus

That's F-114. 500-1000% premium according the Fortin site.

SeatedDime will no doubt be checking in with full details shortly.

grip

ould be tempting to take an eraser to the arrows.
Could you please explain in more detail how an eraser could remove an arrow?
Thank's ...
Al

lathmach

You won the lottery, Rich.
Congratulations.

Ray

NumisOxide

Grade?

tmot99

Pictures?

ziggy29

Nice score, Rich.

I own the discovery coin for F-114 -- I cherried it off Teletrade in December 2005 and recognized it as using the same obverse die as Greer-102/Fortin-106. I knew mine couldn't remain "unique" forever. Maybe with a couple more discoveries this will be an even more popular variety!

RichieURich

Thanks for the replies, guys. Here's a pic. Coin is Good and I paid $66. I bought it because I wanted an 1874 No Arrows dime and I figured this was close to it.

seateddime

another one went of last month on Ebay.

Needless to say I would be interesting in buying the coin.

ziggy29

Looks like F-114. We'd need a closeup of the date to confirm it as F-114, but it sure looks like it from here, since the 7 and 4 digits look a bit weak.

By the way, Gerry Fortin's site offers a "free preview" of the 1874 date and its varieties. The one you noted as Greer-102 is here as F-106. He hasn't updated the free preview section to include F-114, but in the subscriber section it's there. Gerry initially estimated the rarity of this variety as "R6+" with (as mentioned) an estimated 500-1000% premium.

RichieURich

Ziggy, I just took a look at the F-106 on Gerry Fortin's website, that is a really cool coin, would love to find one of those.

Seateddime, as of now, the coin isn't for sale. But sometimes things change, if so, I would let you know.

seateddime

should this coin come for sale I would be a buyer.

Coxe

Awesome pick up. Great eye!

fastrudy

All I know is that if you give a half dime with two arrows to Mr. Paseo,

He will eventually make one arrow "disappear". And I think you have a choice of caliber.

sms88

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I just won one of these from eBay. In VF. For $76.
The price has come down.

yosclimber

Cool coin - thanks for resurrecting this thread.
Here's the current link to 1874 varieties:
http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/date_mintmark/1874wavarpage.htm

RichieURich

<< <i>Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I just won one of these from eBay. In VF. For $76.
The price has come down. >>



With 29 bids, I would have thought the price would have gone much higher. Good buy! Congratulations!

VMRCC

Very nice.. Congrats!

Barry

It's called the "Left Turn Only" variety

grip

<< <i>

<< <i>Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I just won one of these from eBay. In VF. For $76.
The price has come down. >>



With 29 bids, I would have thought the price would have gone much higher. Good buy! Congratulations! >>



Less coin for the money is not a good buy

seateddime

They are scarce but show up.

I did not bid as my example is finer, still this went for a nice price.