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Seated Liberty/Arrows Half Dimes 1853-1855Coin Guide

Seated Liberty/Arrows Half Dimes 1853-1855

When John Marshall discovered a few nuggets of gold on the American River in northern California in 1848 no one could have predicted just how much precious metal lay waiting to be found and how widespread the effects of his discovery really would be. But gold soon flooded the monetary markets [...]

Coin Encyclopedia Seated Liberty/Legend Obverse Half Dimes 1860-1873 Coin Guide

Seated Liberty/Legend Obverse Half Dimes 1860-1873

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The half dime was the first denomination struck when the United States Mint was established in 1792. It was a lynchpin of the decimal coinage system envisioned by Jefferson and Hamilton, [...]

Coin Encyclopedia Seated Liberty/No Stars Half Dimes 1837-1838 Coin Guide

Shield Nickels 1866-1883

Union and Confederate guns fell silent in April 1865, but the civilian population was slow to give up certain behavior acquired during the four years of bloody civil war. No one in the North felt especially charitable toward the South, and few seriously considered rebuilding what industry had existed there before the outbreak [...]

Liberty Head Nickels 1883-1913 Coin Guide

Liberty Head Nickels 1883-1913

Chester Alan Arthur was in the White House, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was napping in a nursery in Hyde Park, New York. FDR, after all, was only one year old at the time. Horse-drawn carriages ruled the roads-and in New York City they also reigned supreme on the just-completed Brooklyn Bridge.
The year [...]

Indian Head/Buffalo Nickels 1913-1938 Coin Guide

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Indian Head/Buffalo Nickels 1913-1938
It was a difficult time for Charles Barber, chief engraver of the United States Mint. Although Theodore Roosevelt was no longer in office, his desire to have more classical designs on our coins, [...]

Jefferson Nickels 1938 to present

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Still in production today, the Jefferson Nickel has become a familiar coin to generations of Americans. Introduced in 1938, it is the only one of our current coins being made in its original composition, though this [...]

Draped Bust/Small Eagle Dimes 1796-1797 Coin Guide

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Although the dime is an essential part of the decimal coinage system, it was one of the last coins issued by the United States Mint when operations first began. By the time it made its debut in 1796, as [...]

Draped Bust/Heraldic Eagle Dimes 1798-1807 Coin Guide

Draped Bust/Heraldic Eagle Dimes 1798-1807,
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At the end of the 18th century the United States of America was just beginning to grow. Vermont achieved statehood in 1791, followed by Kentucky the next year. The western frontier was still in the eastern [...]

Capped Bust Large Size Dimes 1809-1828 Coin Guide

Capped Bust Small Size Dimes 1828-1837
In 1823, little more than a decade after the War of 1812 in which the United States fought for its free use of the seas, President James Monroe issued a foreign policy statement which was to affect the development of the Western Hemisphere for the next century. This Monroe Doctrine [...]

Seated Liberty No Stars Dimes 1837-1838 Coin Guide

Seated Liberty No Stars Dimes 1837-1838

The decade of the 1830s was shaped by Andrew Jackson’s stormy presidency. The former frontier general and hero of the War of 1812 enjoyed a special place in the public’s heart in an era when military heroes were national celebrities, not unlike movie or sports stars of today. Jackson viewed [...]