1803 10C MS(PCGS#4473)

1803 10C MS (PCGS#4473)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Losbeschreibung: This is an uncommonly well preserved survivor of both the issue and die pairing that would do justice to an advanced collection. Both sides are warmly toned with blushes of steel-olive to a base of soft pewter gray. Nicely centered on the planchet, the design is sharply rendered for an early U.S. Mint product with most features boldly detailed. Overall smooth in hand, even though there are some faint hairlines on the obverse, this is a solidly graded and visually appealing AU example worthy of a strong bid.<p>Mint records indicate that 33,040 dimes were delivered during calendar year 1803. Examples of this date are known from five die marriages, and it is the sign of the scarcity of this issue that JR-4, elusive in its own right, is the second most common variety after JR-3. This is also perhaps the most visually intriguing die pairing of the 1803 dime due to the extensive die cracks on the reverse, which are so pronounced to make it a wonder that this die held together long enough to strike any coins in this state. Offered here is one of perhaps just 175 to 250 survivors of the issue as a whole (per Winston Zack et al., 2015), and it is far finer than the typically offered coin with well worn, if not also impaired surfaces.