TEN Cent Tuesday! Post yours too.

I wanted to say something funny or witty but I’m too tired.

 

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I'll see your 10, and raise you 10 . . . . .

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Very nice. Can I guess high VF

 

Mine still has the cover. Cool. Wow yours has a dime in. Is mine fake

 

Here is a somewhat unique LS dime: It's the 1853 No Arrows variety, minted in the early months of the year before the With Arrows, reduced weight variety was mandated by law. There were only 95,000 of these struck versus over 12 million of the With Arrows variety of that year. 55,000 were delivered on February 17 and 40,000 on February 19.

Making this coin a bit more interesting is that it is the plate coin for arguably the first comprehensive book on Liberty Seated Dimes, Encyclopedia of United States Liberty Seated Dimes, 1837-1891, authored by the late Kamal Ahwash and published in 1977.

The coin is the Fortin F-107 die marriage, rarity 4 in NGC MS-64. I purchased it from Gerry Fortin with ownership provenance going back to 1994.

For what it's worth, Gerry told me that CAC declined to give this coin a green bean.

 

These are the more interesting and also scarce dimes in my collection - draped bust, capped bust and seated liberty. It took me about 20 years to put these together.

If there is one advantage in having mostly a raw coin collection is that you can more easily store them, and also take group pictures.
I am also trying out my hand with black backgrounds which I think help to better frame images of coins. I am still learning....