1831 CAPPED BUST 10C PR66

GEM PROOF WITH STRIKING IRIDESCENT ROSE/BLUE TONING. ONLY 20 STRUCK. In1831, France sent a man by the name of Alexis de Tocqueville to visit theUnited States and examine its prison system. Four years later he published thework, “Democracy in America”, a book the Library of America asserts “isarguably the most perceptive and influential book ever written about Americanpolitics and society.” Having spent 9 month in the United States, deTocqueville certainly handled his fair share of US coinage. Could this 1831dime have assisted the author and magistrate in acquiring a steamboat ticketfrom New Orleans or a stagecoach ticket from Michigan woods?<o:p></o:p>