WELCOME BACK TO HSN WELC
VAULT COIN COLLECTOR AND
I AM HELEN KEANEY, ANACS
THIRD UNSEEDED DIMES AS
OF 5 SECONDS AGO BECAUSE
MIKE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT
IT WAS.
>>GUEST: WE HAVE >>GUES
ALREADY SOLD ABOUT A ALR
HALF DOZEN OF THEM. THIS
IS A SEATED DIME IN SHE
ASKED WHY THEY CALLED IT
SEATED. SHE IS SITTING
DOWN. IT IS CALL A DOWN.
SEATED DIME.
>>HOST: I THOUGHT IT >>
WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW.
>>GUEST: THE FOUNDING
FATHERS WERE SIMPLE FOLK.
WE HAVE THIS ENTIRE
RANGE OF DATES THEN THEY
MADE THIS A LONG TIME IN
THE LAST YEAR OF ISSUE
WITH 1891. THE LAST YEAR
THEY MADE THIS WITH THEY
1891. WE HAVE SEATED 189
HALF TIMES, DIMES,
QUARTERS, HALF-DOLLAR
SAND DOLLARS. ALL OF THE
COINAGE IN THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE BETTER
PART OF 50 YEARS ALL
LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THAT.
THE FIVE CENT, $.10,
QUARTER AND HALF-DOLLAR
ALL LOOKED THE SAME. ALL
THEY ALL HAD THAT ALMOST
EXACT DESIGN ON THEM FOR
YEARS AND YEARS.
>>HOST: I DID NOT KNOW
THAT.
>>GUEST: FROM THE CIVIL
WAR ONWARD. THE LAST ONE
WAS MADE IN 1891 SO THEY
ARE NOT FLOATING AROUND
MUCH ANYMORE. YOU HAVE A
SEATED DIME AND HOURS
WILL BE IN VERY FINE
CONDITION. YOU REALLY
NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE NE
AND THE FRONT OF THAT IS
VERY INTERESTING AND VER
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I
LOVED COLLECTING SEATED
DIMES AND SOME OF THEM
HAVE AEROS ON THE DATE
AND SOME OF THEM HAVE
MINT MARKS AND THE BACK
IS VERY SIMPLE AND THAT
IS THE O FOR THE NEW
ORLEANS MAN AND THEY HAD
PHILADELPHIA AND CARSON
CITY AND THAT IS THE O
FOR THE NEW ORLEANS
MINTED DIAMOND I LOVE
THAT RIGHT THERE. AND TH
YOU HAVE THE SEATED DIME
AND THEY ARE 120 YEARS
OLD OR OLDER FROM THE
1870S ARE 1880S OR 1860S
IN THIS COIN RIGHT HERE,
I WAS LOOKING AT THIS I
AND OUR COINS ARE FINE A
OR VERY FINE AND THEY
HAVE THIS IN ALMOST
UNCIRCULATED AT ABOUT
$225. THERE ARE ABOUT
THREE GRADES. HERE IS TH
THE KEY TO THAT COIN, TH
AND THEY ONLY GUARANTEE
THE LAST YEAR OF ISSUE,
1883. THE SHIELD NICKEL
AND THEY CALL IT THE
SHIELD NICKEL BECAUSE?
>>HOST: IT HAS A SHIELD
ON IT?
>>GUEST: THAT IS >>GUES
EXACTLY RIGHT. WE ARE
SIMPLE FOLK.
>>HOST: I THOUGHT IT >>
WAS ABOUT GREEK
MYTHOLOGY.
>>GUEST: THEY CALL THE
LINCOLN PENNY BECAUSE LI
WHO IS ON IT?
>>HOST:
>>GUEST: LINCOLN.
>>HOST: AND THE MERCURY
DIME BECAUSE WHO IS ON
IT?
>>GUEST: MERCURY.
>>HOST: IT IS VERY
SIMPLE. SOMETIMES IT IS
LIKE BARBER, THE GUY WHO
CREATED IT.
>>GUEST: BUT THIS IS
AMERICA'S FIRST NICKEL,
AND DO NEXT TO THE LAST
YEAR OF ISSUE IN 1882 IN
1883 WAS THE LAST YEAR 1
OF ISSUE. I THINK THEY
MADE IT THROUGH THAT
YEAR. AND PRIOR TO THIS
THEY WERE ALL HALF DIMES.
BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE
OUT OF SILVER.
>>HOST:
>>GUEST: HALF OF THE
QUANTITY. IF YOU WANTED
FIVE CENTS WORTH OF
SILVER THAT WOULD BE A
HALF DIME. AND IF YOU GO
TO WWW.HSN.COM WE HAVE
THREE CENT PIECES IN
SILVER AND THREE CENTS
SILVER IN THREE CENT
NICKEL.
>>HOST:
>>GUEST: THREE CENT
NICKELS? THEY WERE MADE
OUT OF NICKEL AND STEAD
OF SILVER.
>>HOST:
>>GUEST: IT IS VERY
CONFUSING. THEY HAVE TWO
CENTERPIECES AND ONE CEN
CENT PIECES AND I THINK
WE HAVE A FEW OF THE WE
HALF CENT PIECES ON WWW.
WWW.HSN.COM . THERE IT W
IS RIGHT THERE.
[READING]
A LARGE SAND AND IT TO
SAND AND THREE CENT. SAN
THEY WERE LARGE BECAUSE
THEY WERE MADE OUT OF
COPPER. AND RIGHT NEXT C
TO IT THERE IS A THREE
CENT NICKEL.
>>HOST:
>>GUEST: A THREE CENT
NICKEL. BECAUSE IT IS
MADE OUT OF NICKEL
INSTEAD OF SILVER. BUT I
WE WILL GO BACK TO THIS,
AMERICA'S FIRST AND THEY
FINALLY STARTED CALLING
IT A NICKEL AND BEFORE
THAT IT WAS A HALFTIME.
>>HOST: BECAUSE IT IS
MADE OUT OF NICKEL?
>>GUEST: THEY MADE IT
OUT OF NICKEL SO THEY
CALLED IT A NICKEL.
>>HOST:
YOU ARE SIMPLE FOLK.
FOLK.>>GUEST: WE CALL F
IT A NICKEL BECAUSE WHEN
IT IS MADE OUT OF.
>>HOST: AND WHAT IS ON
THE FRONT? A SHIELD. 172 00:05:17,300 >>GUEST: SO IT IS A