Mercury dime find

allen

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Jul 16, 2004
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Shelbyville or any yard where the owner will let m
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ace 250
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I was at one of my spots where I have found
20 wheaties but no other coins which was weird,
but today was going to be a bit different and I had
found the usual few wheaties and got a dime signal
on my Ace at about 6 inches and dug my plug and
low and behold there was my first non wheatie find
from this site, a 1924 Mercury in sweet shape !!!
 

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Dug1898

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Sep 27, 2011
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Fingerlakes Region, NY
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Los Banos Gold Bug
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Nice, I just found my first one the other day also. Good feeling isn't it? I just can't imagine finding the numbers of silver coins some members on here find; but I'm tryin'...
 

steelheadwill

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Jan 2, 2010
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New Castle NH.
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Brain eyes ears and nose
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Nice piece o Silver!
I'm in the same boat as Dug1898 with the silvers, but they are adding up :hello2:
 

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allen

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Jul 16, 2004
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ive found several Mercuries before but none
at this site that ive dubbed Wheat City cause
of all the wheaties ive dug here.
I think its one of the pretties coins in the U.S.
Thank you both for the comments :thumbsup:
 

Metal Magnet

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Oct 26, 2010
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OH
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WTG! Yeah, the silver can be elusive. It really takes time and learning to figure out how to find it.
 

Lookin

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Feb 15, 2008
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Kentucky
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White's MXT; backup - BH Pioneer 505
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Maybe you had to clean out all the wheaties before the silver would start popping up! Nice dig!! :icon_thumleft:
 

MKnTenn

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Jul 30, 2010
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allen said:
ive found several Mercuries before but none
at this site that ive dubbed Wheat City cause
of all the wheaties ive dug here.
I think its one of the pretties coins in the U.S.
Thank you both for the comments :thumbsup:
I agree, nice coin. HH
 

Roland58

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Oct 3, 2010
1,193
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Tyler, TX
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Fisher F75 standard (last 3 yrs.)
CTX-3030 10-04-13
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Metal magic sed, "WTG! Yeah, the silver can be elusive. It really takes time and learning to figure out how to find it."

There is a lot of truth to this.....one does have to learn the "language" of their individual machine and some of them are much harder to learn than others (think Mandarin Chinese). Fortunately, I have one that didn't take long to understand (Fisher F75), however, it will sometimes lie, but, it means well. Yesterday, I had a bouncing signal from around 61 to 84 VDI on the 'x' and 'y' axis. I would normally chalk this up to some can shrapnel, but, on this one I could move the coil just ever so slightly and get a 61, a 73 and an 84. Sure enough, at around 4-5" I found a penny, dime and quarter sitting right next to each other. I love this machine!

Best wishes with the Ace, it sounds like you are off and running!
 

ANTIQUARIAN

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Apr 24, 2010
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Congrats on the Merc find Allen! :thumbsup:
Love to see what it looks like all cleaned up . . . minus the dirt! :laughing7:

Dave
 

Desertvet

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Nov 4, 2011
296
0
Apollo Beach, Florida
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Garrett Ace 150
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Congrats on your first Merc find! I'm still anxiously awaiting that day to arrive for myself! :icon_thumleft: Great looking coin for sure! :headbang:
 

Lanny in AB

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Apr 2, 2003
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Alberta
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Silver is always great!

All the best,

Lanny
 

HISPAN

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Mar 15, 2009
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nice Mercury !!! :thumbsup:
 

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