1927-S Mercury Dime ~ four wheats ~ clad

oddcoins · Mar 22, 2009

Hello!

After sleeping in until about 10:am today, my wife & I decided to go on a county drive today. The weather was mostly OK ~ just a few rain showers.

We ended up in Junction City Oregon for lunch ~ and I wanted to find a place to detect. There's a little city park there called Washburn Park. I've detected it years ago when I first got into metal detecting ~ I never found much there, just pocket change. But today one of the first targets I dug there was a 1927-S Mercury dime! After an hour or so the targets got scarce so we decided to head back to the Eugene area. I headed to the University district. Here's a list of everything I dug today:

1927-S Mercury Dime
4 wheats ~ 1942, 1944, 1949, & 1955
9 clad quarters
19 clad dimes
5 nickels
35 memorial cents

I took pictures of the Merc dime before 7 after I gently cleaned it up. This is my silver coin find #18 for 2009. Also, I took a close-up picture of the date area (just for the fun of it).

Thanks for looking!
Neil

Indyfan73 · Mar 22, 2009

cant beat sleeping in and a merk

MikeOregon · Mar 22, 2009

Way to go, Neil!

Keep 'em coming!

Mike

RONC(OR) · Mar 23, 2009

Nice find congrats on the silver keep them coming :thumbsup:

crazyjarhead · Mar 23, 2009

Nice finds and drive

Neil. Great looking merc. Love how you really zoomed in a the close up. That shows some amazing detail when you are looking for a die error, etc.

silverfreak · Mar 23, 2009

Nice find O.C. We love the shiny stuff don't we? :thumbsup:

John (Ma) · Mar 23, 2009

Oh yeah, looks good.

oddcoins · Mar 23, 2009

crazyjarhead said:
Nice finds and drive Neil. Great looking merc. Love how you really zoomed in a the close up. That shows some amazing detail when you are looking for a die error, etc.

Yeah, it's real nice to be able to zoom in that close to see repunched mintmarks, repunched dates, doubled dies, etc.

gold nuggets · Mar 23, 2009

Congrats on a nice Merc dime Neil!! WTG :thumbsup:

Hope to hook up one of these days for a good hunt!
Gold Nuggets :icon_jokercolor:

OPUS1 · Mar 23, 2009

Nice silver :thumbsup:

PA · Mar 23, 2009

very nice silvres oddcoins. you did very good !

henry

oddcoins · Mar 24, 2009

gold nuggets said:
Congrats on a nice Merc dime Neil!! WTG
Hope to hook up one of these days for a good hunt!
Gold Nuggets

Thanks man!

Yeah, we totally got to get out there and detect together SOON! If only the rain would go away for good!

zaxfire69 · Mar 24, 2009

Sleepin in untill 10am. Heck I haven't done that in at least 5 years. Lord I need a break. Nice finds. :thumbsup:

Captn SE · Mar 24, 2009

Nice going, Neil!

Man, that park must have been worked pretty hard! Only one merc? I've never been to a park and found just 1 silver coin. If there's one, there's got to be a few more hiding. Maybe work it again on your next trip there.

Congrats,
CAPTN SE
Dan