I estimate I have about 500 mercs from over the years. My experience is that the merc is the most common silver coin you will find. I know this doesn’t seem logical though, if you think about it, they made that coin for twenty years, whereas the silver rosie didn’t run that long. Most of the mercs I have found are from the 40’s (about 80 percent). The Phily mint alone made almost a billion mercs in the early 40’s so there is tons of em out there. I have a coin book that I bought years ago thinking I would fill it with found mercs (Ya right!) I have all the forties and about half of the 30’s mints, the twenties and the teens get pretty slim though. I DO NOT HAVE 16 D, good thing though as I would probably have a cardiac. I think the rarest ones I have found is a 26d and a 29 D. There were a lot of mint years that only produced about a million!. I have found about 6 1916 mercs and quite of few teen mercs, though you will find that these are usually VERY worn with the mint marks worn from the backs! I always say that every old yard hides a merc somewhere. After a year or so of detecting I counted my coins and did the math and figured that I came up with one merc for about every 8 wheat pennys. 18 years later I find that figure is still about the same. Another funny thing about silver coins is that I used to put them in the paper folders and place the folders in the blue plastic boxes. I filed about 4 of these up then started throwing them in single cigar boxes. These things are the width of a silver dime and hold about 140 dimes. I’m only on my second box since doing this.
mercs from last year. I havent posted here in years. I love merc dimes and normally find one or two a hunt. I hunt mostley curbs and rental houses between occupants. I'm lucky to live in an area with thousands of rental houses built at the turn of the century, most of them owned by the same people. I did get out last weekend after the rain and hunted a nearby park thats been hunted a zillion times. No mercs!, only two silvers rosies and a 1914 barber 
. Good to be gack and post a few!
