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Posted By: barrysloate

Jim- that's a great story about your grandfather's coins, because the San Francisco Mint typically produced smaller quantities of coins than the other mints, hence they are more valuable. But there is no chance that if he purchased an 1894 set, he would have had an 1894-S dime. The general public never got near those coins; certainly they were sneaked out of the mint and given to certain VIP collectors. Even if he purchased the set in the year of issue, it would have been missing the dime.

The 1894-S dime is a legendary rarity, with an auction record of $1.3 million.