dimes

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Traders bundled silver dimes, quarters and half-dollars in face-value increments and launched an arcane—not to mention bulky—asset class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

At that time in the 1960s, dimes, quarters and half dollars had roughly 0.725 ounces of silver per $1 of coin value.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

“Their discs sell like dimes going for a nickel,” Florabel Muir reported in the Los Angeles Mirror in January 1952.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

It’s beneficial, and also really, really inexpensive; per capita, adding fluoride to the water can cost on the order of dimes each year.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2025

I reached into my pocket, felt my two dimes, and tried to decide which one would give me the best answer.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool