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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 24596149, member: 105571&quot;]Here is a somewhat unique LS dime:&nbsp; It&#039;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.&nbsp; There were only 95,000 of these struck versus over 12 million of the With Arrows variety of that year.&nbsp; 55,000 were delivered on February 17 and 40,000 on February 19.</p><p><br /></p><p>Making this coin a bit more interesting is that it is the plate coin for arguably the first comprehensive book on Liberty Seated Dimes, <i>Encyclopedia of United States Liberty Seated Dimes, 1837-1891, </i>authored by the late Kamal Ahwash and published in 1977.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is the Fortin F-107 die marriage, rarity 4 in NGC MS-64.&nbsp; I purchased it from Gerry Fortin with ownership provenance going back to 1994.</p><p><br /></p><p>For what it&#039;s worth, Gerry told me that CAC declined to give this coin a green bean. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1562211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1562212[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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