"Poster 2 - $crooge McDuck and his number one Dime"
"Poster 2 - $crooge McDuck and his number one Dime"
This poster focus on $crooge's #1 Dime.
Clockwise from top-left:
- Not a scene that Carl Barks ever showed directly, but one scene on this page had to show the young shoeshine boy as he earned his First Dime cleaning a ditch-digger's boots on a Glasgow street.
- The #1 dime during Magica de Spell's first appearance in The Midas Touch (UNCLE $CROOGE #36).
- Directly above that scene is a close-up of the tiny Dime, here based only on Don Rosa's own idea that it was probably the most common 10-cent piece in circulation at the time of $crooge's youth, a "seated Liberty" dime from 1875.
- The #1 dime in Billions in the Hole (UNCLE $CROOGE #33).
- The #1 Dime makes its very first, if brief, appearance when it saves the Ducks from Beagle Boy confinement - it is so worn and thin from constant handling that's it's sharp enough to cut ropes in The Round Money Bin (UNCLE $CROOGE FOUR COLOR #495 / UNCLE $CROOGE #3).
- A second scene from the first Magica story, The Midas Touch (UNCLE $CROOGE #36).
- In the first appearance of Flintheart Glomgold, a string tied around Scrooge's #1 Dime helped $crooge to win a contest that named him the World's Richest Duck - The Second-Richest Duck (UNCLE $CROOGE #15).
- In another Magica story, $crooge and his Dime were threatened by some weird faceless critters - The Many Faces of Magica deSpell (UNCLE $CROOGE #48).
- Another threat from a Martian, as $crooge saves his Dime from the purser's safe of a sunken ship - Lost Beneath the Sea (UNCLE $CROOGE #46).
Central scene:
A "generic" view of $crooge dusting the bell-jar under which the famous Dime is usually found resting on its velvet pillow atop a marble pedestal.
D.U.C.K.-SPOILER:
The dedication is hidden in the pebbles beneath the Dime in the anthill scene.
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