A 125-year-old dime just sold for $1.32 million

CNN ^ | August 20, 2019 | David Wiliams

[C19fan]

A Utah businessman paid $1.32 million for a dime last week at a Chicago coin auction.

It wasn't just any 10-cent piece; the 1894-S Barber Dime is one of only 24 that were ever made, according to Stack's Bowers Galleries, which held the auction Thursday night. Only nine of the coins are confirmed to still exist. The coin was purchased by Dell Loy Hansen, who also owns the Real Salt Lake MLS team.

[dp0622]

1898 and worth nothing?? wow.

And why was the guy such a ####?

Wow.

Yeah man my mother keeps telling me to look though them again but i told her there’s NOTHING

And don’t get me started with the stamps he left

Great guy and I loved him and still do but my mother told me he really thought they were worth something.

I didn’t even know about the stamps and coins until he passed.

Thank goodness I have his watch too :) For keeping.

[SamAdams76]

I guess the guy figured I was ripping off my uncle's collection for some easy money. Which in a way I was, for even though my uncle gave them to me, I don't think he figured on me trying to sell them. Anyway, even today, a typical 1898 silver dollar fetches about $4.98 on Amazon.

You will get a lot more if they are either in very good or mint condition or have a characteristic that makes them rare. My collection has none of those!

Now I did collect stamps on my own when I was a kid. They don't amount to much either. I used to send away for packets of them back in the 1970s. They were all postmarked which supposedly added value (they didn't). But I liked the randomness of those packets. You never knew what you were going to get. Kind of like with baseball cards which is a topic for another thread entirely.

For some reason, I got a ton of these Skylab ones. Also a lot of Christmas stamps from around the world.

[dp0622]

That’s COOL :)

I’m sure your uncle gave them to you to do as you wished with them as did my pop.

[Rebelbase]

This gives me hope of using my 50 state quarters and US dependencies collector’s map to aid in my retirement in a few years.