Details
LOT 4330
United States of America AR Dime or 10 Cents. Dated 1854. New Orleans mint. Date with arrows.
Seated Liberty facing to left, holding liberty cap on stick and shield, date with arrows in exergue / ONE DIME in two lines within wreath, mintmark below. KM 77. Near Very Fine.(2.41gr, 18mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
Footnotes
The arrows either side of the date were added to indicate that the standard coin weight had been reduced from the previous issue.
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