Rare 1894 dime sells for $1.7M

Somebody just dropped $1.7 million on a dime, making the winning bid Thursday on a 122-year-old 10-cent piece that is considered to be one of the rarest coins in US history. "There were only 24 pieces struck . . . with just nine of them known today," said Mark Borckardt, senior numismatist at Heritage Auctions, which sold...