How much is a dime worth? For three sisters who grew up on a dairy farm in Ohio, it could mean a big pay day.
This dime depicting President Franklin “D” Roosevelt is valuable because it is missing its “S” mint mark. It was minted in 1975 in San Francisco and there have been six ‘No S Proof’ errors mistakenly released by the U.S. Mint since 1968.
The three sisters inherited the dime after their brother’s recent death. It was kept in a bank vault for more than 40-years.
A company specializing in currency expects the rare coin to bring more than a half-a-million dollars when an online auction ends in October. In 2019, another one of these rare dimes fetched $456,000 at auction and was quickly sold to a private buyer soon after.
Newsweek reports that while the sisters want to remain anonymous, they shared that their family purchased the rare coin for $18,200 in 1978, a significant sum at the time, equivalent to around $90,000 today. They had kept the coin as a form of financial security, hidden from the public eye.
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