Number One Dime (1987)

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The Number One Dime is the first coin that Scrooge McDuck had ever earned. It first appeared in an Uncle Scrooge comic story titled The Round Money Bin, created by Carl Barks and first published in Uncle Scrooge #3 (September 1953). In this story, the dime is so old that it has become thin as a razor blade and allows Scrooge to cut binding ropes and escape from the Beagle Boys. Since Carl Barks' 1961 classic Uncle Scrooge comic The Midas Touch, sorceress Magica De Spell has been trying to obtain the dime.

Description

In one of the dime's early appearances, the comic Billions in the Hole (1961), written and drawn by Carl Barks, the date on Scrooge's dime is 1899 and it bears the portrait of an eagle. However, in some later comic stories, the number one dime is a silver 1875 Seated Liberty Dime.Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies. It is usually seen encased in a reliquary shaped like a golden platter with a velvet cushion securing the coin under a protective glass dome.

In DuckTales, the dime is a generic white metal coin marked with a large "10" on its surface (it is unclear if this is the obverse ["heads"] or the reverse ["tails"]), and the cushion is occasionally replaced by a dollar sign ("$")-shaped pedestal.

Trivia

• In the House of Mouse episode "House of Scrooge", the Number One Dime is portrayed as a Winged Liberty Head "Mercury" dime silver dime of unknown mintage (the "Mercury" dime was minted from 1916 to 1945).