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2026 - (P & D) Emerging Liberty Semiquincentennial Dime Set
$2.25 USD
In the Semiquincentennial year of 2026, the Mint rekindled a flame not seen since 1945: Liberty restored to the obverse of the dime, emerging once more as the nation crossed its 250‑year threshold. These two coins—one born of Philadelphia (P), the other of Denver (D)—stand as twin emissaries of that revival.
Each dime bears the new Semiquincentennial portrait of Liberty, crowned with stars, gaze set forward, neither nostalgic nor naive. She is rendered not as a memory, but as a force—Emerging Liberty, stepping out of the founding era and into the modern republic. The dual date 1776 ~ 2026 arcs along the field like a hinge between centuries, a reminder that the nation’s first breath still echoes in its present one.
On the reverse, the eagle spreads its wings in vigilance, clutching both arrows and olive branch, the eternal balance of resolve and mercy. Beneath it lies the inscription LIBERTY OVER TYRANNY—a motto sharpened for the Semiquincentennial, a declaration that the republic’s endurance is not passive, but chosen.
These two coins, though “Uncirculated,” carry the faint pilgrim marks of their journey—light contact from Mint handling, the soft rub of transit. Not circulation, but the honest wear of passage, the same ritual scuffing that accompanies any relic carried from forge to keeper.