1898-O Barber Dime. MS-66 (PCGS). CAC. This is a lustrous snow-white Gem with the faintest hints of champagne iridescence evident under certain lighting. Satiny in the fields and intensely frosted across the design elements, courtesy of die polishing on the obverse. Nearly flawless and very attractive, a truly significant find for Set Registry participants. Barber dime production at the New Orleans Mint ratcheted up considerably in 1898 with a total of 2,130,000 coins struck. Even so, this is a challenging issue to collect that is quite underrated in Mint State. The 1898-O is actually rarer in high grades than the lower mintage 1897-O, 1903-S, 1904-S, 1913-S and 1915-S. It becomes scare in MS-64 and very rare above MS-65.
