Rare dime to sale

[targits]

Huge payout expected for a rare coin bought by Ohio farm family and hidden for decades

Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value. The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more than $500,000, said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections, which specializes in...

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[Gamma_Joe]

This might be a really dumb question. If it is, I apologize for it.

With no mint mark, how do they know it's from the SF mint? Were dimes only minted in SF in 1975?

 

[sube]

This might be a really dumb question. If it is, I apologize for it.

With no mint mark, how do they know it's from the SF mint? Were dimes only minted in SF in 1975?

Proof coins don't look like mint coins and they only made proofs in SF . So if you have a proof 75 dime it was struck in SF . There in a proof set with the other coins having s mint mark and the dime missing the s . It's rare because only 2 known sube

 

[oldkoot]

That would make someones year and then some