But throw in their lure to coin enthusiasts - each struck in the Carson City Mint between 1870 and 1893 with the most prized coin the only known 1873 "No Arrows" Seated Liberty dime to exist - and the price tag soars. "This is my Olympic moment," Rusty Goe, owner of Southgate Coins, said Tuesday of the upcoming sale, part of the Rarities Night Auction at the American Numismatic Association's World's Fair of Money Convention. Until the coins are sold individually at auction, they remain the only complete collection of coins made in the Carson City Mint, Goe said. As the only known survivor of 12,400 coins minted, Goe said, it alone could fetch anywhere from $1.5 million to $4 million. So for this one night, Carson City will steal the show from the Philadelphia Mint," he said.
– A one-of-a-kind dime minted in 1873 sold for $1.6 million at a Philadelphia auction last night, reports AP. The coin depicts a seated Lady Liberty, and it is thought to be the lone survivor from a one-day minting of dimes at the renowned (in coin circles, anyway) mint in Carson City, Nevada. Another 110 coins also went up for auction, one of each coin minted in Carson City before its facility closed in 1893. Total haul: $10 million. Total face value of the coins: About $600, according to USA Today, which has more explanation on why collectors were so bowled over.