20-Cent Bargains: The Impossible Dream?
The short-lived experiment in United States coinage that is the 20-cent piece may be the least collected classic U.S. coin of them all. Authorized in early 1875, and sometimes called the “double dime,” the denomination was only minted for circulation for two years, with a further two seeing nothing but a trickle of proof coins produced. Even though the reverse design was very different from any other silver coin that bore the Seated Liberty artwork of Mr. Christian Gobrecht, and even though the edge was plain and not reeded like the
