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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dougmeister, post: 2812529, member: 56842&quot;]&quot;That’s exactly what a coin collector in Tampa just paid for his item — a dime.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Wrong.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;...almost every dime during that time was melted down.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Uh, no. Like the other guys said, only 24 or so were minted.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Only 19 of these dimes ended up going into circulation.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Again, wrong.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>From the CoinWorld article that is linked at the end of her &quot;article&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The San Francisco Mint struck nearly 2.5 million Barber dimes in 1893 and had plans to maintain production in 1894, since as of January 1894 the San Francisco Mint had 10 pairs of dies from which it could strike 1894-S dimes. “Unfortunately, the Panic of 1893 caused a widespread and long-lasting economic recession and there was little demand for small change in the shrinking economy,” Heritage noted, and just 24 were struck.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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