Mercury dime find

[allen]

I was at one of my spots where I have found
20 wheaties but no other coins which was weird,
but today was going to be a bit different and I had
found the usual few wheaties and got a dime signal
on my Ace at about 6 inches and dug my plug and
low and behold there was my first non wheatie find
from this site, a 1924 Mercury in sweet shape !!!

 

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[Dug1898]

Nice, I just found my first one the other day also. Good feeling isn't it? I just can't imagine finding the numbers of silver coins some members on here find; but I'm tryin'...

 

[steelheadwill]

Nice piece o Silver!
I'm in the same boat as Dug1898 with the silvers, but they are adding up

 

[allen]

ive found several Mercuries before but none
at this site that ive dubbed Wheat City cause
of all the wheaties ive dug here.
I think its one of the pretties coins in the U.S.
Thank you both for the comments

 

[Metal Magnet]

WTG! Yeah, the silver can be elusive. It really takes time and learning to figure out how to find it.

 

[Lookin]

Maybe you had to clean out all the wheaties before the silver would start popping up! Nice dig!!

 

[MKnTenn]

ive found several Mercuries before but none
at this site that ive dubbed Wheat City cause
of all the wheaties ive dug here.
I think its one of the pretties coins in the U.S.
Thank you both for the comments

I agree, nice coin. HH

 

[Roland58]

Metal magic sed, "WTG! Yeah, the silver can be elusive. It really takes time and learning to figure out how to find it."

There is a lot of truth to this.....one does have to learn the "language" of their individual machine and some of them are much harder to learn than others (think Mandarin Chinese). Fortunately, I have one that didn't take long to understand (Fisher F75), however, it will sometimes lie, but, it means well. Yesterday, I had a bouncing signal from around 61 to 84 VDI on the 'x' and 'y' axis. I would normally chalk this up to some can shrapnel, but, on this one I could move the coil just ever so slightly and get a 61, a 73 and an 84. Sure enough, at around 4-5" I found a penny, dime and quarter sitting right next to each other. I love this machine!

Best wishes with the Ace, it sounds like you are off and running!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Congrats on the Merc find Allen!
Love to see what it looks like all cleaned up . . . minus the dirt!

Dave

 

[Desertvet]

Congrats on your first Merc find! I'm still anxiously awaiting that day to arrive for myself! Great looking coin for sure!

 

[Lanny in AB]

Silver is always great!

All the best,

Lanny

 

[HISPAN]

nice Mercury !!!

 

[allen]

thanks for all the comments guys and good luck to all !!!

 

[Damon64]

Good job on the merc!

 

[allen]

thanks Damon !!