1896-S 10C Barber Dime PCGS MS65 (CAC) - Registry Set Candidate!

Here's a great piece to add to your collection. It could serve as a type coin for your collection. Or if you are putting together a Registry Set, this specimen would be an excellent candidate to add to it. PCGS has graded 13 in MS65, with 10 finer. In CAC, there are 3 in MS65, with 4 finer.

Jeff Garrett recently wrote on the NGC website:

During a recent visit to the vaults of the Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection (NNC), I ran across some amazing numismatic paraphernalia. One of the metal cabinets contains several shelves from the estate of Charles Barber, the Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1879 until his death in 1917. One drawer is nearly full of his engraving tools — the ones probably used to produce his classic series of coins now known as “Barber Silver Coinage.”

Charles E. Barber's engraving tools from the Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection.

These are an amazing tangible link to one of the most important numismatic figures of the 19th and 20th century. The archive also includes hundreds of pages of historical documents from his storied career. The material was generously donated decades ago by the Stack family. Most of the archives have been digitized or copied over the years and are available to researchers from several sources.