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LOT 4320
United States of America AR Dime or 10 Cents. Dated 1838. New Orleans mint. No stars around rim on obverse.
Seated Liberty facing to left, holding liberty cap on stick and shield, date in exergue / ONE DIME in two lines within wreath, mintmark below. KM 61. Fine.(2.50gr, 18mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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