Half dime brings more than plug nickel - CNN story

Shamika · April 27, 2006 11:02PM

CNN Story

Scioto · April 27, 2006 11:04PM

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

Barndog · April 27, 2006 11:30PM

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 · April 27, 2006 11:50PM

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

morgannut2 · April 28, 2006 2:54AM

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 · April 28, 2006 2:57AM

Conder101 · April 30, 2006 12:20AM

<< <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.

Half dime brings more than plug nickel - CNN story

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