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Are Mercury Dimes Silver?

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I know this is probably a dumb question but I'm not sure
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Mercury dimes are 90% silver.
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alright I thought they were but I had to make sure
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it might be a good idea to pick up a Red Book, these have all the info on most if not all US coinage!
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US Coin Facts right here on Coin community.
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US Coin Facts right here on Coin community.

I use the US Coin Facts alot
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Hey if you don't know its always good to ask questions :)
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I use the US coin facts on this site all the time as well. Really awesome to have handy.
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I am using it now to check dates on 40% Kennedy Halfs and Ike dollars.
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I sure hope they're silver
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All Mercury dimes are 90% silver.
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Yes but most only sell as 90%. There are some better/key dates like 1916-D.
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They are really just Lead and the government told people they are Silver so they would think they are really worth a lot. Possibly Nickel mixed in to make them harder too. Now if that was really true, we could call them NickLeads.I wonder why they used that %. Why not 95% or 87% or something else?
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