The Underappreciated 1950-S Roosevelt Dime

Numismatic News - It is becoming increasingly apparent that we may need to give additional attention to the Roosevelt dime. In fact, it could probably be said that we need to give some attention to the Roosevelt dime simply because it is a bit uncertain whether there has ever really been any attention given to them since the day the first one was issued back in 1946. One of the reasons suggesting that we need to at least try to get some idea as to the availability of some Roosevelt dimes would have to be the 1950-S.



Historically speaking, it has generally been thought that the 1950-S was a better Roosevelt dime, at least in Mint State. The 20,440,000 mintage of the 1950-S was not enough to suggest that it was common but there were also a number of dates with lower totals, so the 1950-S was not seen as tougher either. Of course, the notion of a "tougher" Roosevelt dime is enough to make some start laughing in the first place since there is no Roosevelt dime even in MS-65 that is a major threat to break $100 any time soon. In fact, there are no MS-65 Roosevelt dimes about to break $75 in MS-65, so "tougher" is only used on rare occasions.

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