Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . UNITED STATES DIMES. The most interesting and valuable of theUnited States dimes, or ten-cent pieces, is theExperimental dime of 1792, usually termed Disme, and the counterpart of the better-known 1692 half-disme. This piece has for ob-verse the bust of Martha Washington, and wascoined from Washingtons old silver plate, andintended more as family souvenirs for presenta-tion by Washington to friends. It is of Frenchorigin, as far as the designing and the makingof the dies are concerned, the word Dismeplainly showin
Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . UNITED STATES DIMES. The most interesting and valuable of theUnited States dimes, or ten-cent pieces, is theExperimental dime of 1792, usually termed Disme, and the counterpart of the better-known 1692 half-disme. This piece has for ob-verse the bust of Martha Washington, and wascoined from Washingtons old silver plate, andintended more as family souvenirs for presenta-tion by Washington to friends. It is of Frenchorigin, as far as the designing and the makingof the dies are concerned, the word Dismeplainly showing this fact. The legend onobverse of 1792 dime, is Liberty Parentof Science and Indus. The reverse sidehas a small flying eagle surrounded by a 1792 dime was struck in two metals, silverand copper; the fictitious value from #50 to$100 as to condition and metal. The regular issue of the dimes, did not occuruntil 1796. There was a bill passed by Congressprevious to 1796, ordering an issue of • DoubleDimes or twenty-cent pieces, but nothing ofthis kind was ever stru
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