The Lowly Roosevelt Dime

I have put together a a dozen or so Unc/Proof sets of the roseies. By far the hardest to find in the Clad Unc are the 82, 82D, 83 and 83D. No mint sets were issued those years for purchase, there are a few that were sold at the mint however, they run $50+ each. The rest of the set is pretty common to find at shows etc..

I think the most underated one in the set is the 50S in higher grades. I just picked one up at Heritage PCGS 66 I think I got that for around $50.00. The key to the set as everyone says is the 49S. Does have a lower mintage but I have seen them everywhere. ie.. I picked up a MS65 NGC a few weeks ago for $40.00.

I generally pick one up at most shows I go to in the higher grades just to have.

Its not really a bad set to have around. Silver is silver and most can be found in junk buckets at most dealers. So why not?

 

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My grandmother gave me 66 Merc. dimes dating between 1917- 1945, missing 12 date's.
She also gave me 108 Roosevelt 's 1946-1964 with 1 missing date.
Haven't done any research on them yet, but I'm sure I'm missing some of the mints.

 

There are just too many of them produced and really aren't hard to come by. The only real "rarity" are the higher grade full torches. A lot of people probably don't actively collect them because in 10 years they still won't be very expensive and hard to get. I am slowly collecting them but not with the effort I am with Lincolns. Roosies will always be cheap.

 

Wasn't the 1996-W a key date for the Roosevelts?

 

It's a mint set only coin. You won't find it in circulation, but there are a few million of them around.

 

They are also quite ugly.

Lincolns, Washingtons, Franklins, and Kennedy's are heavily collected and still have a high production rate. Roosie's just never gained the popularity of those due to, in my opinion, the design.

 

I don't know why Dansco left out the 1996-W UNC. dime in there album 7125. I called them but they don't seem to care. My grandson & I finished the set 1946-2006 in about 3 months, all unc. I believe the most expensive one was about $30.00.

 

I have found some really wonderfully toned (and WILDLY toned) Roosevelt's, which i happily add to my collection. I would tend to agree with you though, it is IMO the "ugly ducking" of current coinage... If you ignore the spaghetti hair mess they made of the quarter.

 

here here GDJMSP!
Just like the barber series
just hope i am alive to see them go up

 

ah, but do you have the 1982 plain (circulation strike) and 1983 plain (proof only) Roosevelt dimes? The latter is by far the rarest of the rare.

Also, the reason FDR was put on the dimes is because he founded THE MARCH OF DIMES charity well before he was president.

 

Not Yet! :eat:

 

When I got back into collecting, I decided to do a complete UNC set of Roosevelts just because it could be done relatively inexpensively. That said, I don't think they're very attractive coins, which I think accounts somehwat for their lack of popularity. The other thing is that there are no super-scarce key dates which kind of cuts down on the "sex appeal" of the series, I think.