Found Mercury Dime In Change In Toronto, Canada

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Stewie New Member Canada 43 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 10:21 am I throw all my change in a tin and sort through it every now and then. Haven't sorted in about 6 months and found this this morning. Image: File0131.jpg 86.04 KB Image: File0132.jpg 80.43 KB Report this Post to the Staff

GFR3 Valued Member United States 473 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 10:34 am WOW! That is one heck of a find there Stewie. Finding a Merc in circulation these days is UNHEARD of here in the States...I can't imagine how rare of a find that is up North! Congrats! --Gary Report this Post to the Staff
TheForce Pillar of the Community United States 4867 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 10:41 am Good job! Once I was a cashier and I got to open lots of rolls. Always found interesting things in my till. Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels, Kennedy Silvers, SBA and Ikes, wheat cents including steelies. It was great! Report this Post to the Staff
Stewie New Member Canada 43 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 10:47 am A Merc? Of course for Mercury, that makes more sense, I'm not at all familiar with US coin terms so called it Liberty because it was so prominent on the coin, I'll be changing that directly lol. I do see a fair bit of foreign coins aside from US in my change, mostly caribbean which hides easily with QEII on it, at first glance I only saw the reverse and assumed thats what it was (poor eyesight too lol) took out the magnifier to read what country and almost fainted when I saw United States and 1943!! Report this Post to the Staff
GFR3 Valued Member United States 473 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 11:05 am I find quite a bit of Caribean coins here in New York too. Mostly Bahama and Bermuda, but the occassional Jamican sneaks in. I always get excited at first glance thinking its a Canadian (started actively collecting Circualting Canadians just a few weeks back) but I have keep them all and have maybe a dozen or so from the islands. Oh and you called the dime by its correct name---Winged Liberty Head Dime. " Mercury dime" is mis-correctly its common term. Same goes with the "Buffalo" and "V" Nickel....Indian Head Nickel and Liberty Head Nickel. There are a few more out there too. Funny how these things work out, misnamed a hundred years ago and we still call it that today! --Gary Report this Post to the Staff
KurtS Pillar of the Community United States 5318 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 1:56 pm Very cool find in Canada! I've never found one in change here. Report this Post to the Staff
Bilbo Pillar of the Community United States 812 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 2:05 pm Stewie, Actually, the "most correct" term for this type of dime is Winged Liberty Head. The design was never intended to be the Roman god Mercury, but the winged hat/helmet led to it receiving the nickname and it has stuck through the years. Report this Post to the Staff
copper nickel daddy Pillar of the Community United States 2224 Posts	Posted 03/09/2008 4:24 pm GREAT find for Canada! A long time ago, probably back in the 80s, when silver was still nowhere to be found, I was using a cheap metal detector on a baseball field. didn't find anything buried, but sitting right on the surface on the pitcher's mound was a '43 Mercury! This reminded me of that story Report this Post to the Staff
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