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Choice About Uncirculated. All letters in LIBERTY are well apart, identifying the only
such obverse of the first date of Dime coinage. A bold die break splits '179', faint wear
is apparent on the eagle's breast on this virtually Mint State example. A wealth of bold
mint frost enhances both sides, highlighted by exquisite peripheral gold at the
well-defined rims for increased visual impact. At the beginning of U.S. coinage, Dimes
were a novelty, since the public was far more comfortable with the Spanish-colonial 1 Real
or Bit, valued at 121/2 Cents. Decades would pass before the Dime fully superseded the
early, foreign-made legal tender silver.Ex Stack's, private treaty, April 1969.
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