1964 was the last year the American dime was struck in silver. The farewell issue was enormous: Philadelphia and Denver together produced more than 2.28 billion silver ten-cent pieces.

In 1965 President Johnson approved the Coinage Act of 1965, which removed silver from circulating coins, and the dime became copper-nickel clad. The silver Roosevelt design of 1946 ended its story with this date.

The design stayed the same: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s profile by John R. Sinnock with the initials JS, and on the reverse a torch with olive and oak branches, symbols of liberty, peace and strength.

The 1964 coin closes a silver Roosevelt date run and pairs naturally with a 1965 clad dime, a clear boundary between two eras of American small change.

F-VF grade: signs of circulation are even and visible on the high points of the design, while the portrait and inscriptions remain legible.

Every coin in the VPcoins catalogue tells a small story about the country that issued it.