1938-S 10C, FB MS(PCGS#5015)
1938-S 10C, FB MS (PCGS#5015)
Spring 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 2343
- 等级
- MS68FB
- 价格
- 21,168
- 详细说明
- Dusted with antique silver iridescence, this silky smooth example also exhibits a few blushes of warm russet peripheral patina on the obverse. With a generous - if not overlay abundant - mintage of 8,090,000 coins, the 1938-S is an issue that should not pose much of a problem for less discerning Mercury dime collectors. Mint State survivors abound, many of which were kept from entering circulation at the time due to a final slide into economic recession before the onset of the Second World War turned the United Sates into the "arsenal of democracy", as described by President Franklin Roosevelt in a 1940 radio broadcast. As with all classic U.S. Mint issues, of course, the 1938-S Mercury dime is a major rarity near the pinnacle of the numismatic grading scale. The very finest seen by PCGS is a single MS-68+ FB specimen that realized an extraordinary $364,250 in Legend Rare Coin Auctions' Regency Auction 33 of June 2019. With similarly full striking detail, and surface preservation that is every bit as extraordinary, the Ultra Gem offered here is sure to sell for a strong premium relative to its assigned grade.