I just acquired these two well traveled coins together as a "set". 1837 small date (first coin) and 1837 large date (second coin). Lots of wear, particularly on the reverse, but very readable dates. Nice matching pair of the first year of issue.
Help me out here: is it at all strange that the dates on the coins show little wear, but the rest of the coins are very worn? Is it characteristic of these dimes? Steve
Hard to say why the dates avoided the ravages of circulation wear as much. I have quite a few seated dimes (and other denominations) and the dates on them show the wear. A lot really depends on the type of Liberty Seated dime ( I believe there are 6). The design changes caused different types of wear. https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Liberty-Seated-Dimes.aspx
When I was a kid in the 70s, a local dealer got me interested in 19th century type. I always loved the no stars seated issues. For some reason, I always thought the G-F examples looked really cool
From one who is four years into this series and just over two-thirds there, those are a very nice pair of circulated. I'll swing by the bank and post my two vg8/vg10,s tomorrow. As to why the date doesn't seem to wear as much I would assume it to be a combination of placement between a rather high rim and mound. I believe the dates are a bit under the height of both as well being that they were hand punched into the dies.
