My First Merc

[Fropa]

My 3 boxes of halves this week only produced 6 40%ers. Last week I asked the head teller at my dump bank if she could order me some boxes of dimes. She told me she had to order 4 boxes ($1,000) and didn't want them sitting in the vault. I told her I would buy all 4 boxes when they came in so she ordered them for me. I picked them up Thursday.

Box 1 had a 1964-D

Box 2 had a 1963-D. It also has 2 Canadian: a 1977 and a 1988

Box 3 was the best: 1945-D Merc, 1947-D, 1961-D, 1962-D, 1963-D

Box 4 had a 1951 and a 1954. It had 3 Canadian: 1974, 1998, and a 2002

I found a 1906 Barber in a box about 2 years ago but this is my first Merc.

 

[Bridge End Farm]

nice find and display

 

[Codes]

Way to go. Mercs are always a good find.

 

[DrDetector]

Mercs are really tough for me, can't explain it. I have found about 200 silver dimes, only 2 of them being Mercs.

 

[Fropa]

Thanks everybody. Finding any coin for the first time is always great. 200 silver dimes is a bunch DrDetector. I've only found about 3/4 of a roll so far. I don't search dime very often, but have gone through about $3,00-$3,500 worth in the last 2 years. How often do you search dimes?

 

[DrDetector]

Thanks everybody. Finding any coin for the first time is always great. 200 silver dimes is a bunch DrDetector. I've only found about 3/4 of a roll so far. I don't search dime very often, but have gone through about $3,00-$3,500 worth in the last 2 years. How often do you search dimes?

I do maybe a box a week or so, sometimes more if I feel like it. A good portion of the dimes I have found were 1964s. Once I found like 8 or 9 in a row before finding another date. I would say about 40% of the silver dimes I get are '64s. The mintage figures were highest that year and lots of people hoarded '64s since it was the last year of silver dimes, so it makes sense. Eventually some of those make it back to circulation. I average a silver dime in about 900 clad.

 

[DesertTumbleweed402]

I wish they made the mercs again - the design is wonderful. Great job on the silver finds!