Very light gray surfaces with traces of pale gold and iridescent toning. Both obverse and reverse have lightly reflective fields. A few minor imperfections are noted on either side. Strong central details although weakly defined along the borders. Included in the Logan Collection as "First Usage" of these dies.

In 1825, the Mint produced 510,000 dimes. As we noted above, some of these were certainly dated 1824 with an estimated net mintage of coins dated 1825 totaling 410,000 coins. These were produced from a combination of four obverse and three reverse dies with five known varieties. This variety and that labeled JR-5 are the two scarcest with JR-5 considered rare. Only one finer example than this is listed in the JRCS Dime Census.

Only use of the obverse die. This die marriage represents both the first and third use of the reverse die with 1825 JR-3 struck between.

Perfect obverse. This reverse has an extremely faint die crack through bases of ICA to the upper arrowhead.

Purchased at the 1989 ANA Convention. Earlier from the Quality Sales Corporation's sale of the Bergen Collection, October 1979, Lot 1080.