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===Number One Dime===
The Number One Dime (sometimes also called Lucky Dime in some games) is the first [[coin]] that [[Scrooge McDuck]] ever earned (or, according to some stories, produced). The Number One Dime first appeared in the story ''The Round Money Bin'', created by [[Carl Barks]] and first published in ''[[Uncle Scrooge]]'' #3 (September, 1953).<ref name='US3'>{{cite book | last1 = Barks | first1 = Carl | author-link1 = Carl Barks | title = Uncle Scrooge #3 | publisher = Walt Disney Company | date = September 1953}}</ref> In this story, the dime is so old that it has become thin as a razor blade and allows Scrooge to cut binding ropes and escape from the Beagle Boys. In later stories, it is insinuated that the dime brings good luck to Scrooge and has helped him become a rich man. In some stories, he instantly starts losing money whenever the dime is no longer in his possession. In fact, in some series, Scrooge is so attached to the dime that he becomes hysterical, to the point of losing his mind, whenever he loses possession of the dime.

It is never made clear whether the dime actually brings good [[luck]], or if Scrooge merely believes in it so much that he is distressed and makes bad decisions whenever he no longer has his [[Dime (United States coin)|dime]]. Since Barks never actually said that it was because of the coin that Scrooge was the richest duck in the world, Don Rosa, after various informational exchanges with Barks, for a faithful production of ''The Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck'', clarified that the Number One Dime is not actually an amulet, and that this vision was just a myth. The Number One Dime is just a sentimental object that happens to be the first coin Scrooge received for his work. Rosa made clear, also, that Scrooge made his fortune working hard and being honest.<ref name='NOD'>{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/dime.html |title=The number one dime |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld jr. |first=Sigvald |work=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514101229/http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/dime.html |archive-date=2011-05-14 }}</ref> This point is heavily reinforced in the ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' TV series where Scrooge tells his nephews about the value of hard earned cash.

The dime is a key plot point in practically every story featuring [[Magica De Spell]], a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain. Magica believes that by stealing the first coin earned by the richest person in the world and melting it down to a magical [[amulet]], she can gain the power of the ancient [[King Midas]], so that everything she touches becomes [[gold]] and she can be rich beyond her wildest dreams. The fact that this will only work if the coin indeed belongs to the richest person in the world at the time, and is the first coin that person earned, is crucial, and is made into a plot point in some stories. However, the dime only has magical value because of these circumstances and not on its own. Magica once successfully stole the Dime while helping the Beagle Boys rob McDuck, stopping when she realized this would mean McDuck would no longer be the world's richest person, rendering the Dime worthless.

According to a comic story by [[Don Rosa]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Last of the Clan McDuck (D 91308) {{!}} I.N.D.U.C.K.S. |url=https://inducks.org/s.php?c=D+91308 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=inducks.org}}</ref> it is an 1875 [[United States Seated Liberty coinage|Seated Liberty]] [[dime (U.S. coin)|dime]], but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar,<ref>See Kalle Anka & C:o issue 1-2/2010 p. 66-69.</ref> the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 [[Seated Liberty dime]].

Scrooge earned the dime in 1877 in his hometown of [[Glasgow]], when he started working as a shoeshine boy on his tenth birthday.<ref name="LTSM">''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'' by Don Rosa</ref> Before that it belonged to [[Howard Rockerduck]] (the father of [[John D. Rockerduck]]). The customer who paid it to him, a ditch-digger called Burt, seemingly "cheated" Scrooge. In reality, Scrooge's father, [[Fergus McDuck]], gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services. Scrooge McDuck never learned that fact, although Fergus did reveal it to Scrooge's sisters Matilda and Hortense. Burt and Magica De Spell, who learned about this when she traveled in time to the day Scrooge earned the Dime, are the only other ones who know. McDuck kept it as a reminder not to be fooled again in the future. When he emigrated to the [[United States|US]] three years later, he carried it with him. Scrooge still has the dime and keeps it on a pillow under glass because of its sentimental value. [[Donald Duck]], [[Huey, Dewey, and Louie]], and [[Gladstone Gander]] among many others think it is really a lucky charm, but Scrooge himself rejects any claims beyond sentimentality.<ref name='NOD' />