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What's a "Orphan Annie" dime?

notlogicalnotlogical Posts: 2,235 ✭
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Is there a story behind these? What makes them special? Are there only a limited number of them? Curious minds want to know. image

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  • RareBronzeCollectorRareBronzeCollector Posts: 1,270
    The Mysterious Orphan Annie Dime
  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
    CoinFacts has a small writeup of this issue as does Numismatic News. If you have been a member of the ANA for several years then you will have one issue of The Numismatist that has a cover story, I believe, on this coin, too.
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  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305
    "GOOGLE" is your friend....The Coinfacts article is the one I'm familiar with...
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  • notlogicalnotlogical Posts: 2,235 ✭
    Thanks every body! image
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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    The 1844 Liberty Seated Dime, often referred to as "The Orphan Annie Dime", is a common date coin that is heavily hoarded.
    One California hoarder has more than 600 examples.
    The hoarding has pushed the price up on these way beyond what it should be.
    I own 3 of these.

    Ray
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    very over rated and over priced. Consider the 1846 - much better coin to own.
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  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>very over rated and over priced. Consider the 1846 - much better coin to own. >>



    I heartily agree with Seateddime, I won't stock an 1844 dime because the huge hoard overhangs the market. Heritage once tried to sell the hoard as one lot, with a minimum bid of something like $150K - $160K. It didn't sell.

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  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭


    << <i>very over rated and over priced. Consider the 1846 - much better coin to own. >>


    Agree 100%. The 1844 I owned was the lowest graded coin in my Seated Dime set. I just couldn't see spending a lot of money on it.
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>CoinFacts has a small writeup of this issue as does Numismatic News. If you have been a member of the ANA for several years then you will have one issue of The Numismatist that has a cover story, I believe, on this coin, too. >>



    The March 1999 issue of the Numismatist it was.
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  • TheCaveTrollTheCaveTroll Posts: 174


    << <i>Heritage once tried to sell the hoard as one lot, with a minimum bid of something like $150K - $160K. It didn't sell. >>



    If anyone is interested I think this hoard is currently available for purchase. It was offered to me in March and I declined to offer on it.
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭


    << <i>The 1844 Liberty Seated Dime, often referred to as "The Orphan Annie Dime", is a common date coin that is heavily hoarded.
    One California hoarder has more than 600 examples.
    The hoarding has pushed the price up on these way beyond what it should be.
    I own 3 of these.

    Ray >>



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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doesn't even make the top 30 best seated dimes. Dates like 58-0 for example are even scarcer. It may not even be in the top 50.

    It was overrated in the mid-70's before the hoarding got serious.
    These were all over the place back then.

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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭
    Page 99 of the 1947 edition Red Book has an eight-paragraph writeup on the "Orphan Annie."

  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would find it extremely funny if the hoard owner decided to bury the entire hoard of 600 pieces in the dirt out in the California desert. Then the 1844 dime would finally be rare and the story of the buried hoard would be true too!
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's a 1844 10c PCGS VF20 *Little Orphan Annie* at DLRC today for $820
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    That's pretty neat, I had never heard of this until this thread. image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting... always there are surprises in numismatics... so many stories... most of them the result of an active imagination, but fun to read. Cheers, RickO
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    If the Mexico story has any credence, there should be at least a few extant (holed) examples of this date that were retained by their owners. Not every example would have been melted. Have any been reported?
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