Three sisters from Ohio recently sold a rare dime featuring a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt for $500,000. They owned the dime jointly and sold it on October 27 through GreatCollections, an auction house that specializes in valuable coins and currency.

A rare dime featuring a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt just sold for more than $500,000. Struck in San Francisco in 1975, the coin was part of a large collection of “proof” dimes. It was also one of two known examples from that set to contain an error: a missing “S” mint mark,

Three sisters in Ohio just sold a rare dime for $506,250 during an online auction. The mother and brother of the sisters (who wish to remain anonymous) purchased the coin in 1978 for $18,200. The coin sat in a bank vault for over 40 years until it was inherited by the sisters following their brother's death.