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The dime, in United States usage, is a ten-cent coin, one tenth of a United States dollar, labeled formally as "one dime". The denomination was first authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792 . The dime is the smallest in diameter and is the thinnest of all U.S. coins currently minted for circulation, being 0.705 inches (17.91 millimeters) in ...
The Roosevelt dime is the current dime, or ten-cent piece, of the United States. Struck by the United States Mint continuously since 1946, it displays President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse and was authorized soon after his death in 1945. Roosevelt had been stricken with polio, and was one of the moving forces of the March of Dimes.
1987, 4 coin proof set, commemorating the Bicentenary of America's Constitution features the Statue of Liberty surrounded by these U.S. presidents in clockwise order; Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy ...
Based on Roosevelt’s work with the March of Dimes, he was a natural choice for the U.S. dime, according to the U.S. Mint, which issued the first Roosevelt Dime in 1946.
1. 1965 Roosevelt Dime, No Mint Mark. The only variety of a dime from 1965 was the one without a mint mark produced by the Philadelphia Mint — but a lot were minted. Some 1965 Roosevelt Dimes ...
An extraordinarily rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000. ... depicts President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is one of just two known ...
The original Washington quarter design remained unchanged, aside from the removal of silver content and finer details, up to 1998, the Jefferson nickel up to 2003, and the Roosevelt dime to the present day. The Franklin half was replaced by the John F. Kennedy half dollar in 1964 to commemorate him after his murder. The composition of the ...
The 1975 coin features a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is part of a collection of proof dimes. ... The dime was displayed at a coin show in Tampa, Florida before being sold in an ...