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Woo Hoo, First Silver Coin for the Year

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Woo Hoo, First Silver Coin for the Year

I finally found a silver coin this year, a 1942 Mercury dime. A lady let me detect around a house probably from the 1930’s. I was on my last swing in the front yard in the flower bed and ding, a dime lock I found a 1953 wheat there but that was it for old coins. I think someone had MD’d the place before but that ol Ace sniffed out some silver. I found 63 pennies in that yard. I also worked the easement and found 4 other wheat’s and a 1942- 5 Centavo Mexican coin. I also found a key, bullets and a marble. And a suspect part of a silver earring. Altogether I found 115 coins for $4.72.
 

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Congrats! Those are some sweet finds!
 
Wow....nice clad count a yard! WTG!!

HH,
Moon
 
Wow, nice hunt! Love the Merc. Keep digging!
 
Man thats more than I could find in a whole day at the park. Thats alot of clad for a house.
 
Nice hunt and great finds ... congratz on the first 08 silver coin ... I'm still trying to break the silver coin drought for 08 myself ~ Jimmy
 
Nice finds there! Look forward to some of your future finds. I have to wait till the snow disappears before I can do anything, just research now.
 
i always love digging mercs! congrats on the years first!
 
NICE FIND, THEY ARE ALWAY'S NICE TO DIG.
 
Congrats, nice job on getting that Merc dime.
 
topdog said:
Congrats, nice job on getting that Merc dime.
Thanks all. Mercs are one of my favorite coins. It was nice that it was the first silver for me to find for the year.
 
WOW real nice Merc.

That house looks like my neck of the woods...it's not Long Beach is it?

I got a 1942 S wheat yesterday...so maybe a Merc is hiding not too far away.

HH Joe
 
Wow some nice ones, there is a very bent up coin you have on the left did you do that with your shovel?
 
OH..I just noticed that 5 Centavos coin....I found one last week but so crudded up that had to take the acid (HCL) to it. Right out of the acid I saw a lady profile and the word CENT... I almost had a coronary!! I thought it was an old USA Cent from way way back...LOL. Eventually got ..NCO before the CENT... exposed and figured it it for CINCO CENTAVOS. Mine also had a clasp soldered to it.

Really amazing some of the "stuff" we find.

HH Joe
 
DrJoePrime said:
WOW real nice Merc.

That house looks like my neck of the woods...it's not Long Beach is it?

I got a 1942 S wheat yesterday...so maybe a Merc is hiding not too far away.

HH Joe
No where near Long Beach Joe. It is a typical 20's -40's Spanish style built throughout California. Usually where there is wheat's theres silver. HH
 

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