Where are the 1806 dimes?

Moldnut · December 15, 2011 1:29PM

What happened to the 1806 dimes? I once read somewhere that indeed there were 1806 dated dies found at the mint but supposedly never used. Does anyone have any theories as to why they were not used or the possibility they did get used and the coins were melted. Does the 1806 dime fall into the same category of the 1931 Standing Liberty Quarter that J. Cline ponders their existence

STONE · December 15, 2011 1:41PM

Maybe a good question for the Sunday weekly JR Newsletter?

I don't know the answer.

Baley · December 15, 2011 2:39PM

Often, the gaps in the early years, particularly for the small denomination silver, was because no depositors of bullion requested small change those years

BaseballAbs · December 15, 2011 3:19PM

Have there been any reports of an 1806 dime existing? I don't know much about the early dimes. (yet)

Quarternut · December 15, 2011 4:33PM

Just to put the activities of the mint in regard to dimes during this time period more into focus, here are the delivery warrants from 1805 - 1807:

07/31/1805 - Warrant #352 - 67,540 Dimes
10/30/1805 - Warrant #360 - 53,240 Dimes

03/02/1807 - Warrant #430 - 10,000 Dimes
03/10/1807 - Warrant #431 - 50,000 Dimes
03/16/1807 - Warrant #432 - 20,000 Dimes

As can be seen, no dimes were struck and delivered in 1806. The Mint however had no way of knowing what depositors would require or request that their deposits be coined into. Therefore, preparation of dies for 1806 was a logical step late in the 1805 year.

In looking at the other denominations struck and delivered during this same time period we see that most of the Mint’s energy and therefore requests of the depositors (mostly banks) was focused on the largest denominations (Half dollars & Quarter dollars).

After the last delivery of dimes in 1805 (Warrant #352) until the next delivery of dimes in 1807 (Warrant #430), the following silver coins were struck & delivered:

1805 - 64,736 halves
1806 - 839,576 halves
1806 - 206,124 quarters
1807 - 80,300 quarters

There are many other examples of dated dies being produced, but never used to strike coins. The 1804 half dollar dies that were over-dated to 1805/4 come to mind.

QN

MFH · December 15, 2011 9:03PM

<< <i>Maybe a good question for the Sunday weekly JR Newsletter?

I don't know the answer. >>

I think Dimeman knows the answer, he's been hording his Birthyear Dimes for years.

Where are the 1806 dimes?

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