1872 H Newfoundland dime

KurtS · Senior Member

I like this one...very clean overall and good rims. The reverse looks stronger than the obverse, so this might be a weak strike. Obverse looks VG-10, but I think the reverse is a solid F15, but that's just by my gut--I don't have any of this series. I collect mostly 20c Newfoundland. Charest's book lists VG10 at $30, F12 at $32 and F15 at $50.

Dick · Expert Member

GarryN, that is a nice looking dime. I only have the Canadian, and only late dattes.
Dick

GarryN · Expert Member

Thanks guys, I paid $8.50 for it in 1995. Thanks for reminding me about the mintage. Thats what caught my eye. It was the first coin I ever bought at the Niles Coin Shop in Niles IL.

Robert · Senior Member

Nice coin! I'd love to spend an afternoon in that coin shop.

Newfoundland is one of my favorites. Very low mintages and the silver content for your coin is 92.5% versus 90% for US dimes of the same year. They even have gold $2 coins.

To me, Newf coins have tremendous upside potential. Frankly I don't know why they don't seem to be highly sought at the moment.

Dick · Expert Member

rRobert, with what hapened today, you may not have to wait very long to get an answer to your questin!...And "IT AIN'T OVER YET"!
Dick

GarryN · Expert Member

That coin shop is wonderful. The bid board closes every other Tuesday. You could stay in there for hours and no one would bother you. They have the Breen book, the VAM encyclopedia, the Top 100 VAM book and other reference material there to use if you want to look something up. One of the guys recently discovered a new VAM variety there. The letter from Leroy Van Allen is hanging on the wall. They have coffee and cookies pretzels and donuts on Saturday. They have pop, and cookies and coffee on the night the bid board closes. If thats what heaven is, Im there. Laughing

Dick · Expert Member

That coin shop would be very nice, even if I had to walk quite a way to get there, but the only shop near, is like going into a bank vault. Remote operated gate to go in, and out, and one can go thru the bowls ot foreignm IHC, and wheats. It has a board, but I don't know if it is coins for sale, or bid. I can't see them well enough to tell
Dick

GarryN · Expert Member

Thats why I stick to the shops I am familiar with. I walked thru the front door once to a coin shop in the city, and there was a second door in front of me that was locked and two guys inside started peppering me with questions, what do you want, what do you collect, what are you looking for today. I finally said, please let me out, because the outer door locked when it shut. So I was trapped. I can understand they are paranoid about getting robbed. But I was very uncomfortable too.

The only aggravating thing about the Niles shop is that it closes around 5 pm every day except Friday and Saturday when it closes at 1 pm. It is closed on Monday. But it is open till about 8:15 pm when the bid board closes on every other Tuesday because the board closes at 7:30 pm. Before they chase everyone out they manage to get the new bid board up so you have guys already bidding on the new coins. Laughing

The owner, John Sladek recently retired and sold the shop to a younger guy named Curt and the shop is open less hours when John was there. Rolling Eyes

Dick · Expert Member

Garry, I know there is at least one other shop in the area, but it is quite a way from where I live. With the price of gas, I don't like to waste any more than absolutely necessary. I give her $20.00 for gas each time she takes me to the hospital in Redlands, (about 12 miles). My wife gives her money each time they go shopping. They go to the casino once or twicw a month, and the first sevens that come up,goes to my daughter. The one shop I do go to is in Fontana, where my daughter lives. When i go there, it usually amounts to a good sized order for a couple or three boxes of tubes, and other supplies, apart from my searching for Canadian coins. More than once has he let me out thru the store, and out the back door. He watches until I get to the car, and then goes back inside. He knows I have problems . He buys a lot of silver, and gold. many times while there, he has made some sizable purchases of one , or rhe other.
Dick