Hello friends. Here's a new coin for me but I'm not to sure about the die shift on the obverse near the bottom star. Has anyone seen a similar coin with the same problem.
Not die shift, it's a die break, more commonly known as a "cud". Your coin is the die variety JR-1. Pretty much all JR-1 1796 dimes have the exact same break as on your coin.
Here is my example. It is believed that this was the first set of dime dies that were used in 1796. There are six 1796 dime die varieties in total. The cud to the left of date appears on all of the known examples of this variety. The die probably broke during the harding process. The cud grows until it covers up the first star according to the Early United States Dimes 1796-1837 book.
