1803 Draped Bust Dime. JR-3. Rarity-4. Fine Details--Repaired (PCGS). The 1803 dime as an issue is elusive with only 175 to 250 coins extant in all grades (per Winston Zack, Louis Scuderi and Michael Sherill, <em>Bust Dime Variety Identification Guide</em>, 2015). Of the five known die marriages three (JR-1, JR-2 and JR-5) are major rarities. JR-4 is scarce and typically offered well worn, if not also impaired. The same can be said for JR-3, the most frequently encountered variety of the issue, but still conditionally challenging with survivors dwindling rapidly above the middle reaches of the numismatic grading scale. From the E. Horatio Morgan Collection.
