1796 10C MS(PCGS#4461)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

3027

Grade

AU55

Prix

21 000

Description du lot

This visually engaging piece holds tremendous appeal for advanced type collectors. It is a lustrous Choice AU Draped Bust dime with plenty of mint frost remaining. The fields are also noticeably semi-reflective, a feature best appreciated with the aid of direct lighting. Wisps of iridescent golden-russet toning engage isolated peripheral areas, although this is an essentially brilliant coin. Also a nicely struck one, both sides retain bold to sharp detail in the absence of all but light wear. The only mentionable softness is confined to the lower right reverse border, where the denticulation is weak to absent and a few trivial adjustment marks (as made) are seen. Clash marks in the fields are also as made, while wispy handling marks serve solely as reminders of this coin's brief stint in circulation in the young United States of the 1790s.<p>The 1796 JR-4 variety represents the second of two uses of this obverse die; the first use was for the 1796 JR-3. This date is always eagerly sought for type purposes as well as by those who specialize in early dimes. The first of their denomination, the dimes of 1796 present an insight into our nation's first "short bits," as dimes were called long ago.