YO1 - Seated Dimes
1856


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Set Details
Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: DIMES - SEATED LIBERTY
Item Description: 10C 1856 SMALL DATE
Grade: PCGS MS 67
Owner: yeoldeone
 
Winning Set: YO1 - Seated Dimes
Date Added: 12/22/2004
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

Surprisingly for such an innocuous date (R-3, 5,780,000 struck including an estimated 150,000 of the Large Date variety) this coin is the sole coin graded MS-67 by PCGS with NGC similarly reporting just one. When this coin was sold by Heritage in February, 2000, (lot 5470), it elicited almost no comment in the catalogue other than to note it was well struck and attractively toned. The pops in 67 were two when the coin was sold, and were still two a decade later. I make this coin to be an example of F-118, but with twenty-three varieties to choose from I don't have a high degree of conviction. The mint outdid itself as the strike is close to perfect. The only mentionable deviaiton from perfection is the reverse die is lightly clashed, resulting in a die line from the leaf above the final E in DIME down to the top rightside of that E.

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