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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26695241, member: 10461&quot;]Good morning, and welcome to February 13th. (Yikes! Friday the Thirteenth! LOL)</p><p><br /></p><p>Today we move into the dimes. Because we&#039;re working on a Dansco 7070 lineup, the earliest dime is the...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Capped Bust Dime Variety II (1828-37).</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I say you could post an earlier Capped Bust (large size) dime if you want to. Those don&#039;t fit in the physical album due to their larger diameter, but we&#039;re working on a <i>virtual</i> album here, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now. let&#039;s see what I have. Hmm... there isn&#039;t one in my current slabbed collection. I have a holed example in my &quot;holey&quot; 19th century type set, but do I have a photo of that? Hmm. Let&#039;s see...</p><p><br /></p><p>Aha. Yes, I do. Looks like it has a hole from an old square nail. Those are always mildly interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/n3/ixapy9hzf7x6.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/vx/0gfa85tvd1yr.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have had problem-free examples in the past, of course, but have no pictures of any of them. If I was to guess what my former &quot;best of type&quot; example was, I&#039;d imagine it was no better than VF.</p><p><br /></p><p>A local detecting buddy of mine once dug (and later sold me) a nice 1820 with the STATESOFAMERICA variety.&nbsp; Alas, no pics of that one survive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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