Talk:Number One Dime/@comment-1416077-20150405221518

I removed the following:


 * "In another 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.ref:http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++33-02 "Billions in the Hole" page at I.N.D.U.C.K.S. World-wide database about Disney comics."

The reasons for the removal follow:

1) Carl Barks had stated that Scrooge had earned his number one dime in 1877, at the age of ten, with Barks placing his date of birth in 1867.

2) The US dimes minted in 1899 were "Barber"-head dimes, which do not have an eagle on the obverse; in fact, the last US dime to bear an eagle was minted in 1837. Barber dimes were minted from 1891 to 1916 and continued in circulation well into the 1930's and 40's (with some still being circulated until the mid-60's, when silver dimes were replaced by the copper-nickel alloy they still have to this day).

3) The link provided does not show the image in question. Once it is confirmed that it exists, then the edited text can be restored as a separate paragraph under the definitive description.