United States
1 Dime "Seated Liberty Dime" · “Seated Liberty Dime”
United States · 1837–1891 · Silver
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The Seated Liberty Dime: a goddess on a rock, 1837–1891
In 1873, the Carson City Mint struck 12,400 little silver dimes — and a new law made every one of them obsolete almost overnight. Today, exactly one is known to survive. That single coin sold in 2012 for $1.84 million. It is a Seated Liberty Dime, the workhorse ten-cent piece that outlasted nearly every other American coin design of the 1800s.
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