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The most expensive item is Monroe's gold-toned 1950s cylindrical minaudiere purse carrying her tiny hair comb, a tube of lipstick, eight Philip Morris cigarettes and 1940s dimes.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

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

This meant that dimes, quarters and half dollars had the same amount of silver relative to their face values.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 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 thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls