THE ELUSIVE ELIASBERG 1858-S DIME

   

Collectors have long regarded the 1858-S Dime as a scarce date and one of the most difficult to locate in Mint State. When Bowers and Merena sold the Dime portion of the Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. collection in 1996, they offered a single 1858-S Dime graded MS64 (raw) described by them as Believed to be the finest known example, and quite possibly by a long distance. Presumably, the cataloger based this conclusion on the fact that, by the time of the sale, neither PCGS nor NGC had ever graded a Mint State 1858-S Dime.

Much has occurred in the numismatic marketplace since 1996, so let's do a deep dive on the Eliasberg 1858-S Dime to see where it stands today relative to other examples.

As of this writing (September 2021), the Numismatic Detective Agency's (NDA) database shows nine demonstrably different 1858-S Dimes in Mint State (and possibly a tenth example). Of these, the finest is a PCGS MS66 CAC from the Stellar and Eugene Gardner collections. That coin last sold for $88,125 in a June 2014 Heritage auction.

The second finest example in the NDA database is an NGC MS66, also from the Eugene Gardner collection. This example appears to show little, if any, color, indicating that it may have been conserved in the past. This coin sold for $38,400 in a December 2017 Heritage auction.

Now we come to the Eliasberg example as the third finest in the NDA database.

To read the complete article, see:
The Eliasberg Project: The 1858-S Dime (https://numismaticdetectives.com/blog/f/the-eliasberg-project-the-1858-s-dime)

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