1885-S 10C AU50 认证号21889860, PCGS号4695

Ron Guth

San Francisco Mint employees contributed to Dime production in 1885, but only to a limited extent.  The mintage of the 1885-S Dime was an anemic 43,690 coins.  Most of the 1885-S Dimes entered circulation and few were saved by collectors, thus creating the rarest Dime of the 1875 to 1891 period.  Even low-end circulated examples are highly prized.  In Mint State, barely a dozen examples are known.  Gems are extremely rare.  The finest example is a single PCGS MS66 from the Eugene Gardner Collection, a coin which set a record price for the date of $49,937.50.

As might be expected, Dime researcher Gerry Fortin could identify only one die pair for this date.