1916 D Mercury!!!!!

[Josey Wales]

Today my Dad and I decided to take our XLT's out one more time before I have to leave for college. Little did I know that I would make the find of a lifetime at an old farm house just down the road from my house. We had previously hunted the house last week. It produced several wheats, three indian head pennies dating 1895, 1867, and 1865. I had also found my first mercury dime dating 1942, and my first barber dime dating 1912. Eager to hit the old place once more before I have to leave next week we grabbed our detectors and headed out. Driving only a few miles we arrived at about 1:30 this afternoon. We decided to hunt in the front yard to see if we had missed any coins from the last hunt. The answer to that question was quickly resovled when dad and I each found a few wheats dating 1919, and 1937. As always, this made us continue to hunt hard for old coins. Although, after searching the entire front yard and some of the side yard we had managed to find only a couple more wheaties. Unable to search the back yard due to thick briars we decided to dedicate the rest of our time to hunting the side yards. After about an hour we had found only a couple more wheats, and i began to feel discouraged thinking my silver streak was over. But that all changed when I got a solid signal next to a big tree in the side yard. The VDI on my XLT read +81 and i just knew I was about to dig another silver dime. I dug about 3 inches down with my predator digging tool when I saw the edge of a silver dime. I grabbed it quickley and when i saw the date i was astonished it read 1916. Seeing that it had a mint mark i was even more astonished. As soon as we got home we checked the mint and amazingly it was a d!! The coin is pretty worn with a few scratches but nonetheless a 1916 D Mercury!

 

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[vanoldschool]

Banner, in g-4 its worth $475.00

 

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[michigan michael]

That is my dream coin! Congrats! What are your plans? Keeping it? selling it? New detector maybe? I ask because I wonder what I would do with such a wonderful recovery. Banner for sure!

 

[Rasputin]

What is it with the '16 D's lately--they are reproducing like tribbles here on T-net.

 

[vermonster]

Yah now thats a NICE COIN

 

[Josey Wales]

My son is in college now, he had to report last Wednesday for football, but we talked about what he wanted to do with his coin. For now were still just amazed that he found such a coin, especially here in southern Ohio. We were wondering though if it would be smart to have the coin graded and slabbed? Does anyone know what that cost to have done and would it be worth it with the condition the coin is in?

 

[Bartman]

Awesome find congrats. Banner IMO.

 

[D Merc]

Hey dad thank you for getting me into treasure hunting, and always letting me go with you. And thank you for sharing the experience of finding this dime with me, I could not have done it without you man! It is something i will remember and charish for the rest of my life. I miss everyone and hope all is well at home. And i cant wait til we can go huntin again!!

 

[wingmaster]

Great find there I think there was only 264,000 minted surely not many left around pretty rare find indeed.

 

[crazyjarhead]

I missed this as I'm always gone. WTG on a find of a lifetime for most of us..............And a nice congrats on the Banner Find

 

[dfx willy]

your a lucky man!! although bryce found a 1877 indian like me but then topped it off with a 16d like you. i havent found one of those yet. congrats willy

 

[spartacus53]

Great find, it just goes to show that some fantastic coins are still out there waiting to get picked up