Barber Dimes (Liberty Head)
The Seated Liberty dime had been circulating since 1837 and attracting criticism for years before anything was done about it. By 1887, Mint Director James P. Kimball was noting in his annual reports…
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Draped Bust Dimes
The dime did not exist until 1796. Although the Coinage Act of 1792 had authorized a ten-cent piece as part of the decimal monetary system, and although the Mint had been producing copper cents and…
Capped Bust Dimes
When Mint Director Robert Patterson finally hired John Reich in March 1807, he was bringing in a talent the institution had missed for years. Reich, born in Fuerth, Bavaria, had arrived in America…
Mercury Dimes
Mint officials in 1915 were operating under a misapprehension. They believed the Mint Act of 1890 required them to change coin designs at the 25-year mark; in fact the statute only authorized them to…
Roosevelt Dimes
Franklin D. Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, Georgia on April 12, 1945, at age 63, after twelve years as the 32nd President of the United States. A tenure that spanned the Great Depression, the New…
Seated Liberty Dimes
The Seated Liberty dime that appeared in 1837 carried a design that had been in development since at least 1835, when Mint Director Robert M. Patterson began pushing for a neoclassical replacement…