United States
½ Dime "Seated Liberty Half Dime" · “Seated Liberty Half Dime”
United States · 1837–1873 · Silver
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The Seated Liberty Half Dime
It is smaller than a modern dime, almost too small to read with the naked eye, and it carried the same buying power as five cents for most of the 19th century. Yet one Seated Liberty half dime — a single coin nobody knew existed for over a century — sold for $3.12 million.
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