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Stack’s Bowers to Auction Rare 1894 Barber Dime

8/31/2026

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Stack’s Bowers Galleries will auction an 1894 Barber dime with a $1 million opening bid.
Only nine of the 24 1894 Barber dimes minted in San Francisco are known to survive.
A surviving 1894 dime fetched $2.16 million last year after a $1.998 million sale in 2016.
Numismatics VP Dustin Johnson warned that rarity does not guarantee high value.

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Stack’s Bowers Galleries will auction an 1894 Barber dime with a $1 million opening bid.
Only nine of the 24 1894 Barber dimes minted in San Francisco are known to survive.
A surviving 1894 dime fetched $2.16 million last year after a $1.998 million sale in 2016.
Numismatics VP Dustin Johnson warned that rarity does not guarantee high value.