1876 Seated Dime

Stew

Found this Seated Dime in a small coin shop. Thought it was pretty cool not the best condition
But not as smoothed out as most that I run across in my area.

Terry

ricko

Very nice dime.... Cheers, RickO

BillJones

Terry, I've got to be honest with you.

That dime has a fair amount of detail with EF sharpness, but it's been cleaned and has many serious scratches. As such I'd net grade it all way down to Good - Very Good. This is not the type of coin that you should seek for a really nice collection. But I know that older coins like this don't show up at small shops and shows now a days.

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BillJones

<< <i>btw Bill aren't 1876 10c's pretty common, even in very illustruous grades? >>



If you are looking for the Legend Obverse die, it is the most common Liberty Seated type coin in all grades. There is no justification for settling for an unattractive example.

Barry

I agree, too. BTW, is there a weak S mint mark? Hard to tell...

GRANDAM

Stew

Barry, No "S" on her she is a philly

The only reason I grabbed her was at the shop under a fairly good light it looked like there was frost in the
deeper parts of the devices and the fields had a ton of hairline scratches which struck me as funny.
Between the scratches on the reverse the field has a mirror like look to it. The last time I saw that
kind of look to a coin it was an impaired Silver proof my brother in-law got in change from of all places Taco Bell.
(There was no toning on it )
She was just an oddity not to be part of a type set or anything like that.

Terry;

doh

A little beat up and cleaned to be sure, but there are far, far worse out there. Depending on what you paid of course, it could be a pretty decent piece.

seateddime

Any seated dime post is a good post