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A Utah businessman paid $1.32 million for a dime last week at a Chicago coin auction. It wasn't just any 10-cent piece; the 1894-S Barber Dime is one of only 24 that were ever made, according to Stack's Bowers Galleries, which held the auction Thursday night. Only nine of the coins are confirmed to still exist. The coin was purchased by Dell Loy Hansen, who also owns the Real Salt Lake MLS team.

At the White House today, Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended Saturday night’s “private” concert with Prince. Although rumors had surfaced about the concert, the White House was silent about the event that brought up to 500 people to the event and did not inform the press about it. News of the event quickly leaked on social media – including posts from Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and Rev. Al Sharpton. Earnest indicated that the Obama family paid for the event at the White House, telling reporters that the first couple “did it on their own dime.” When repeatedly questioned about

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11 - A unique dime minted in 1873 in Carson City, Nev., sold at auction in Philadelphia for considerably more than its face value -- $1.84 million. The "No Arrows" dime went to an anonymous buyer in the auction at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, KYW News Radio reported. It was described as the world's most valuable dime. Coin Update News said the dime was probably sent to Philadelphia for assay and was supposed to be melted down along with others in the series because the weight of silver in dimes had been slightly increased. But someone...

After last week's "shellacking" courtesy of the GOP, liberals have been moping around Capitol Hill, stunned that their agenda had been thoroughly rejected by the American people. Don't feel bad for these distraught Dems, as this week Democratic staffers are being visited by support professionals. These folks went around to the offices of outgoing Democrats to help their staff members with resume writing, job hunting, and grief counseling. What is infuriating is that these "counselors" are being paid for by the taxpayers. While your friends and family are watching their savings accounts inch towards zero in the Obama economy, the...

Harvard Translation: not one dime! Ten Trillion Dimes!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Further evidence that times are tough: It now costs more than a penny to make a penny. And the cost of a nickel is more than 7 1/2 cents. Surging prices for copper, zinc and nickel have some in Congress trying to bring back the steel-made pennies of World War II, and maybe using steel for nickels, as well. Copper and nickel prices have tripled since 2003 and the price of zinc has quadrupled, said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., whose subcommittee oversees the U.S. Mint. Keeping the coin content means "contributing to our national debt by almost...

An investigative report to be aired on Italian television today raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns. The weapon is similar to one developed by the U.S. military called DIME, which causes a powerful and lethal blast, but only within a relatively small radius. The investigation, by Rai24news, follows reports by Gaza-based doctors of inexplicably serious injuries. The doctors reported an exceptionally large number of wounded who lost legs, of completely burned bodies and injuries unaccompanied by metal...

OK, we've all talked about doing it - Drop by here and report all the Damn Dimes you're specifically going out and spending today. Talk about getting 'bang-for-your-bucks', we can counter-protest the loony lefties today, drive the DUmmies nutz, celebrate the innaguration of OUR President, and stimulate the economy - all at the same time! Let's see just how much money the FReepers can spend today!

The desperate and still, very sore losers, on the left are continuing to make pathetic attempts to civilly protest the now certified election of George W. Bush. From staging anti-war protests in Washington on the inauguration day to urging citizens to boycott ‘red' products and refrain from spending money on the 20th, their obsession is bordering on compulsive. This latest website that I ran across is asking people to not spend a single penny on January 20th. Not on gas, not on groceries, food, or tolls. Nothing! The idiocy of such an attempt should be blatantly obvious to any observer....

The man who shot former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other men to death at a nightclub was obsessed with the popular heavy metal band and made bizarre accusations against it, a onetime friend said in reports published Friday. Jeramie Brey said gunman Nathan Gale once showed up at a friend's house saying he wanted to share songs he had written. The pages of lyrics were copied from Pantera, but Gale claimed he had written them, Brey said. "He was off his rocker," Brey told The Columbus Dispatch. "He said they were his songs, that Pantera stole them...

Read about this bill ALERT: As you've heard by now, the greatest president of the modern era has passed on to be with his Lord. As a tribute to his legacy, we believe it's finally time to replace President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's image on the dime with Ronald Reagan's. According to WorldNetDaily.com, a group of over 80 members of Congress have co-sponsored a bill to put The Gipper's face on the coin. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) introduced the bill, the "Ronald Reagan Dime Act" (HR 3633), last year during the controversy over the airing of the leftist mini-series "The Reagans"...

Results so far: Dime 7% $10 bill 24% $20 bill 10% Other 5% None 54%

<p>It was hard to suppress a chuckle last Friday, when Hillary Clinton accused President Bush of aspiring "to undo the New Deal." Three days later Mr. Bush signed the Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization Act, establishing a vast new entitlement. But some Republicans would like to do away with a symbol of the New Deal: the Roosevelt dime.</p>

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America's conservatives are absolutely right, and I don't give a fig what conservative columnist George Will says. They're peeved that anyone, and especially a major television network, would make a docudrama that casts Ronald and Nancy Reagan in a bad light. "The Reagans" was, by all accounts, a pretty cheesy show, as are virtually all docudramas based on real-life people. And now the nation's most conservative Republicans have decided it's payback time. The price they are demanding for besmirching the Reagans will be exactly one dime - the same dime you heard about in that old Great Depression refrain: "Brother,...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer9dec09,1,3119597.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions GOP Has Got to Get Off the Dime Robert Scheer You've got to love Nancy Reagan for the steadfast way she guards her husband's legacy against opportunistic political poachers. The most recent example being her quick rejection of the boneheaded partisan move by nearly 90 congressional Republicans who signed on to a bill to have Reagan replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt's profile on the dime. "I do not support this proposal, and I'm certain Ronnie would not," was her no-nonsense reply. Of course her husband would agree. His father had a job in Roosevelt's New Deal that saved their family...

Conservative Republicans angry over an unflattering television movie about Ronald Reagan want to put his image on the dime in place of Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Democrats are just as determined to keep FDR's profile in coin purses.

Currently F.D.R. is beating Reagan 74% to 26% regarding CNN.com's new poll: "Whose image should be on the dime?" F.D.R. is the anthithesis of all we stand for, and his New Deal has been a Raw Deal. Monticello's apparently going to be shed from the back of the nickel, and isn't it time that Mr. Tax-cuts Reagan replaced the Donkeys' favorite socialist president?

<p>Nancy Reagan voiced her opposition Friday to an attempt by Republican lawmakers to put Ronald Reagan's likeness on the dime in place of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.</p> <p>"While I can understand the intentions of those seeking to place my husband's face on the dime, I do not support this proposal and I am certain Ronnie would not," the former first lady said in a statement released Friday.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Republicans angry over an unflattering television movie about Ronald Reagan want to put his image on the dime in place of Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Democrats are just as determined to keep FDR's profile in coin purses.</p>