3 mercury dimes from the club yesterday

[tnt-hunter]

I went to the club yesterday hoping to find a few civil war bullets. I started in the front field where I have found most of the other bullets. They hold Easter egg hunts there and usually put coins in the eggs for the kids. I did find a Kennedy half, a 1947 wheatie and some other coins probably from the egg hunts, but not much else worth keeping. So after 3 hours of digging nails and junk out of the field I moved into the club’s front yard. I had gridded part of it in the past, but didn’t have time to start a grid on the rest so I just did a little walk about. Not much except for some ferrous metal signals until I got a nice high tight tone. I dug the plug and found a nice old mercury dime in the middle of the plug. I stuck my pinpointed in the hole and something else was still in the hole. I scooped out a trowel of dirt and there was another merc. About 20 feet away I got a mixed signal that sounded very iffy, but it was a mix of high, mid and low tones. Very confusing, but I dug it up just to be sure and the first thing I find in the hole is a beaver tail tab without the tail. Then I fish out a nail and last another mercury dime. The weird signal made sense. That hole had 3 types of metals that produce 3 different signals and the tone I got depended on how I swung the detector.

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I haven’t found 3 mercury dimes in one hunt in a long time so this was another good day. This hobby is so interesting. One day you dig a lot of interesting relics, the next day you dig junk for hours and then wham the silver coins show up. As someone said a while back, Forest Gump’s box of chocolates hobby, you never know what you are going to get.

Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.

 

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[BLK HOLE]

Very nice saves

 

[washingtonian]

Wow, not sure I’ve ever found 3 Mercs in a day. Way to go!

 

[WG2020]

TNT-hunter...you have been killing the last couple of days...I open today’s finds and I see two posts from you with very nice finds...I always like seeing Mercury dimes...maybe because I haven’t found many of them being in Germany the past 3 years and having only started detecting a couple of months before I moved...congrats...looking forward to seeing what you find next...good luck with your hunts...Walt

 

[Inspector]

Great hunt, congrats on the triple silvers, never got 3 in day myself. HH

 

[A2coins]

A great post I love those Merced very elusive where I am

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[tnt-hunter]

TNT-hunter...you have been killing the last couple of days...I open today’s finds and I see two posts from you with very nice finds...I always like seeing Mercury dimes...maybe because I haven’t found many of them being in Germany the past 3 years and having only started detecting a couple of months before I moved...congrats...looking forward to seeing what you find next...good luck with your hunts...Walt

Thanks for the nice comments WG2020. Good luck swingin your detector in Germany. There is a lot of history in that part of the world and the potential for some great finds. I hope you get your coil over something fantastic. Steve ()

 

[dirtlooter]

sweet and that is why you dig even the weird signals

 

[Doc Arey]

Its great to see them in the plug!

 

[tnt-hunter]

sweet and that is why you dig even the weird signals

Yep! When in doubt, dig it out!

 

[DirtDigginDan]

Nice bunch of ladys there, congrats!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice. I always like finding the Mercs. They are a great looking coin.