dimes

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The 1965 Coinage Act ended the use of silver in dimes and quarters and cut the amount in 50-cent pieces to 40% from 90%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

The bags contain dimes, quarters and half dollars.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

“Their discs sell like dimes going for a nickel,” Florabel Muir reported in the Los Angeles Mirror in January 1952.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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

Mr. Arable gave Fern two quarters and two dimes.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White