Only nine known to exist, the “Barber Dime,” valued at $1.5 million, will be auctioned on Sept. 1st.
COSTA MESA, CA.- Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the oldest and most accomplished numismatic auction house, will be auctioning off a dime so rare that it made its future co-chairman a national celebrity when he was only 19.
Rarities like the 1894-S dime, an American classic, have layers of desirability. Some collectors are most attracted to a tiny population, some to an elite reputation, some to an oft-recited history…