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Choice AU 1838-O No Stars Dime 1838-O Dime No Stars. AU-55 PCGS.

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Choice AU 1838-O No Stars Dime 1838-O Dime No Stars. AU-55 PCGS.
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Choice AU 1838-O No Stars Dime 1838-O Dime No Stars. AU-55 PCGS. This frosty specimen enjoys lively luster across both sides, along with a crisp strike and surfaces with no marks of any substance to be found, even with your trusted loupe. Largely brilliant, this choice dime has gathered soft golden-orange highlights at the rims over the years. Savvy collectors know that this date circulated heavily in the “Crescent City” area, a place of constant international commerce and ever-moving small change; today’s surviving examples are more apt to be AG to VG than any other grade, and in higher grades, patience is definitely a virtue when seeking a problem-free example such as offered here. Choice for the grade, and an ever-popular issue with type collectors who enjoy a challenge.
In 1838, the Philadelphia Mint began use of the new dime obverse die with stars, but the shipment of No Stars mintmarked dies to New Orleans was accomplished in early April, before Mint Director Patterson’s order to add stars to the obverse went into effect. Apparently New Orleans used the dies, sans stars, until early into 1839, at which point 1839-dated dies arrived at the New Orleans Mint and were used from that point on.
PCGS #4564




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