1873 dime sells for $1.6 million at Philadelphia auction

PHILADELPHIA – A dime made in 1873 sold for $1.6 million at auction.

An anonymous bidder won the pristine coin, said Chris Napolitano, president of Stack's Bowers Galleries, which auctioned it during an American Numismatic Association convention. With a 15 percent buyer's fee tacked on, the final price for the coin was $1.84 million, he said.

The rare coin was minted in Carson City, Nevada, during a one-day run of dimes.

"Generally speaking, in the coin auction business, you might get a couple of people fighting each other" as they bid, he said Friday. "On this one, we had four or five buyers over a million dollars. We had a fair amount of buyers pursuing it."

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I came in a little low on this one.

 

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It was part of the "Battle Born" collection, which contained every coin minted at Carson City (one example of each date/mm)...