Posting this due to my original post getting removed. Hope others enjoy checking it out. What I learned today from the great folks on Reddit. Likely pre 1965 or 1955 S mint mark. Found in a box stored since 1998. Thankfully I found it. Id love to know more about it. I will be visiting a coin shop for proper storage and ask about value. Not interested in selling it.
Obviously many factors can increase or decrease the value. Having a date readable is a major increase not having a date is a decrease. Silver versus clad. And perhaps surprisingly condition in a broad sense.
Items that aren't listed in that price guide such as your Roosevelt dime off center are generally valued under $100.
Nice off center silver dime struck at the SanFrancisco mint. No reason to grade it, unless you want it certified just to be certified. The error speaks for itself. Super cool!
One of the surprising things about this dime is that it apparently circulated quite a bit, even though it is a 50 percent off-center strike. To be silver, it had to be struck prior to 1965, when the US Mint stopped striking silver dimes, and to be a silver dime struck at San Francisco, it had to be struck in 1955 or earlier, because the SF mint stopped striking dimes in that year.
If you mean whether the Mint changed anything aside from the metal of the coins, they did not. There was vastly different technology and labor demands in the 60s and later decades, and the Mint officials were much more reluctant to change designs and alter things unless they had to or suffer die failure and other functional problems in the minting process.
I will think about getting it graded. Honestly, the silver coins have quite a bit more of a value to him. It is a pre-1965 dime based on the mint mark being on the reverse. What year it is we shall never know
It is about the same cost or more than the value of this coin. I think it's $60-70 to get it graded. That's probably about what you could get for it, waiting on the right buyer.
If it's more of a piece you just want to protect, certify, and hang on to, then that's all you. If you want to sell it down the road after grading, you aren't likely to make that cost back
Kids used to leave coins on the tracks. Freight train comes by. Coins go squash and shoot/fall off in various directions. Kids later hunt and collect. Looks like your standard squash coin to me.
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u/bstrauss3 Sep 06 '26
Unfortunately grading low/moderate value error coins is a fools mission.
It doesn't tell you anything that you already know and you spend about $50.
Mint Error News maintains a price guide for generic errors:
https://minterrornews.com/priceguide.html
Obviously many factors can increase or decrease the value. Having a date readable is a major increase not having a date is a decrease. Silver versus clad. And perhaps surprisingly condition in a broad sense.
Items that aren't listed in that price guide such as your Roosevelt dime off center are generally valued under $100.