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1 Dime 'Seated Liberty Dime' w/o stars, increased weight
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 1875-1891 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ONE DIME |
| Edge | Reeded |
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The "without stars" designation here is misleading to the uninitiated — this is the standard late-series Seated Liberty dime, the stars having been dropped from the obverse in 1837 before being restored, then this design settling into its long final run. The weight increase from 2.49g to 2.50g was mandated by the Coinage Act of 1873, which also abolished the trade dollar's domestic legal tender status and metricated U.S. coin weights to align more closely with the metric system — a largely symbolic gesture that changed almost nothing in practice.
New Orleans and Carson City issues from this period circulated hard through the silver-economy West.