Roosevelt dime
The Roosevelt dime is the current dime, or ten-cent piece, of the United States. It displays President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse and was authorized soon after his death in 1945. Officials moved quickly to replace the Mercury dime. Chief Engraver John R. Sinnock prepared models, but faced repeated criticism from the Commission of Fine Arts. He modified his design in response, and the coin went into circulation in January 1946.
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The Roosevelt dime is the current dime, or ten-cent piece, of the United States. It displays President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse and was authorized soon after his death in 1945. Roosevelt had been stricken with polio, and was one of the moving forces of the March of Dimes. Officials moved quickly to replace the Mercury dime. Chief Engraver John R. Sinnock prepared models, but faced repeated criticism from the Commission of Fine Arts. He modified his design in response, and the coin went into circulation in January 1946. Since its introduction, the Roosevelt dime has been struck continuously in large numbers. The Mint transitioned from striking the coin in silver to base metal in 1965. The design remains essentially unaltered from when Sinnock created it. Without rare dates or silver content, the dime is less widely sought by coin collectors than other modern U.S. coins. The Mercury dime, first coined in 1916, had been struck for at least 25 years, but it could be changed under the law by the Bureau of the Mint. No congressional action was required, though the committees of each house with jurisdiction over the coinage were informed. The new Mercury dime will go into circulation about the end of the year. It will be struck in silver, as well as the base metal used to strike the current ten- cent piece of the U.
S. Mint’s coin. It is expected to go on sale in the spring of 2015. It has a face value of $1.50. It was struck by the Mint in silver in 1965, and it has not been struck in base metal since the mid-1970s. The coin will go on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in January 2015. Its face value will be $2.50, as it has been in silver since the 1970s and 1980s. Its obverse will be the same as that of the current coin, except with the word LIBERTY written on the reverse. The obverse has a hand grasping a torch, and also clutching sprigs of olive and oak. The reverse has scrolls inscribed with the Four Freedoms, and a goddess of Liberty on the Goddess of Liberty. The face of the coin has a bust of Roosevelt on it, with the hand omitted and the spritzs placed on either side of the torch. The head of the late President Roosevelt, as portrayed by the models, is not good, and needs more dignity. The models were sent on October 12 by Howard to Gilmore Clarke, chairman of the commission, who consulted with its members and responded on the 22nd, rejecting them, stating that the design was not good. The next day, Sinnock submitted a model for the new obverse, addressing the concerns about the Roosevelt’s head.
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