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The vast majority of Roosevelt Dimes are worth face value — 10 cents. But some of the rare varieties that include errors and other unique features sell for many thousands of dollars.
Here is a good example of a regular coin worth regular money. CoinTrackers.com estimates the value of a 1972 Roosevelt dimes in average condition to be worth 10 cents, while one in mint state ...
Discover: Check Your $2 Bills — They Could Be Worth a Ton. Errors during the minting process are not uncommon — or even necessarily accidental. Many things can go wrong when machines produce ...
Like other coins, the value of errors is based in part on rarity and condition. In general, lower denomination errors are less expensive than higher denomination errors simply because more such coins are minted resulting in available errors. Due to improvements in production and inspection, modern errors are more rare and this impacts value. [3]
A silver Roosevelt dime. The Roosevelt dime was first struck on January 19, 1946, at the Philadelphia Mint. [23] It was released into circulation on January 30, which would have been President Roosevelt's 64th birthday. [17] The planned release date had been February 5; it was moved up to coincide with the anniversary. [23]
The result of preparing a set of new dies improperly from the original hub results in coin errors such as doubling, extra details, or missing details on the surface of the coin. A die break is caused when the mint die suffers a crack and this crack feature is transposed onto the coins in the minting process.
Jitalia17/istockphotoSome of the rarest and most valuable coins in U.S. history owe their worth to minting errors that slipped through unnoticed. Coins like the 1943 Copper Penny, struck in copper ...
Only two of the 1975 “No S” Roosevelt dimes coins have knowingly been discovered — and that’s out of more than 2.8 million Proof sets the U.S. Mint produced in 1975. But this is where ...