Our Coin Collecting Starter Set for Roosevelt Dimes is both Inspiring & Educational!
This Coin Collecting Starter Set is a great way to learn about and start collecting the Roosevelt Dime Series! Included is the Littleton Roosevelt Dimes Folder and 10 different Roosevelt Dimes to start the collection!
This four panel folder holds all of the business strikes from 1965 to 2003. It includes a total of 75 ports labeled with the year, mint, and mintage figures.
This lot of 10 Roosevelt Dimes are in Brilliant Uncirculated condition. You will receive ten unique Roosevelt Dimes with different dates and/or mint marks.
The Roosevelt dime was issued in 1946 to honor the recently deceased Franklin D. Roosevelt. The dime was selected as the coin to bear President Roosevelt's image since he had been a strong proponent of the March of Dimes Campaign to battle polio. The image of Roosevelt was created by John Ray Sinnock and accepted after revisions which lent more dignity to the design. Controversy immediately followed the release of the coin. Sculptor Selma Burke, who had submitted a portrait of Roosevelt five years earlier, claimed Sinnock used her work as a model for his own design. The public also believed that the engraver's initials of JS stood for Joseph Stalin, furthering the paranoia and mistrust of Communism at that time.
Initially, the Roosevelt Dime was composed of 90% silver and 10% copper. However, in 1965 the worldwide rising price of silver caused the Mint to remove silver from the composition of the Roosevelt Dime. It was changed to a Copper-Nickel clad composition, although some Proof coins were struck in silver for collectors.
Roosevelt Dimes were minted at the Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and West Point Mints.
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