Hello Beautiful Lady!!

[Southpaw]

Went to a nearby CU and got $300 in CWR dimes. Every time I get dimes from this place it produces and this is no exception. I'm just about to head to work right now and I thought I would open just one roll and what do you know!! My first merc! It had a really dirty rim so at first glance, I didn't even know I had silver in the roll. It's a 1941 by the way.

 

[AdDicted2Ag]

Sweet.. Love those mercs.. I got 3 of them this week..

 

[Weaselbrott]

That's a dude!

 

[sagittarius98]

That's a dude!

Liberty is a lady, unless she changed her sexual orientation in 1941.

 

[mercury1]

Liberty is a lady, unless she changed her sexual orientation in 1941.

Winged liberty or mercury dime. I always thought it was a lady but was mercury a male Greek god? Maybe that's where the dude concept came from.

 

[fjer]

That's a dude!

It's not actually Mercury (male Roman god) on the dime, but Liberty wearing a winged hat.

 

[maverick]

Nice score there SP, can't wait to see whats in the rest of the rolls. HH, Maverick.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Dude looks like a lady

 

[Southpaw]

Well after going through the remaining dimes, I finished with 2 Rosies and 2 Mercs. That's well above average for me! I also pulled a 1968 Canadian. Is the magnet test the only way to make sure it's silver?

And by the way, any online source that I checked says the he/she on the front of the mercury dime is a girl. At least I guessed right when I made the post.

Sorry about the poor camera quality. I'm using my iPod touch.

 

[sagittarius98]

Winged liberty or mercury dime. I always thought it was a lady but was mercury a male Greek god? Maybe that's where the dude concept came from.

Many people thought that Liberty looked like Mercury on the dime, so they started calling them Mercury dimes or Mercs.

Well after going through the remaining dimes, I finished with 2 Rosies and 2 Mercs. That's well above average for me! I also pulled a 1968 Canadian. Is the magnet test the only way to make sure it's silver?

The magnet test, weighing it, a sound test and a specific density test would work.

The weight is just a 0.002 gram difference, so you would need one of these:

Amazon.com: American Weigh Gemini-20 Portable Milligram Scale, 20 by 0.001 G: Kitchen & Dining

The sound test isn't incredibly reliable, though 50% silver can have a silver tone, it won't always. A specific density test is too complicated to be worth your time (good for 1967 quarters, though). The last method is color, 50% silver will tone more silver like usually, but it isn't certain.




In other words, the magnet test is best.

 

[hotrod]

awsome!