new additions to my collection of mercury dimes!

hi all! i have 2 more mercurys to add to my fastly growing mercury dime collection. got this one from the contest on here. thanks again for having it. anyway here are two mercury dimes. a 1937 and a 1942. nothing too rare but special to me. i think they are in very good to fine condition. i always love holding old silver in my hands. i always wonder who spent it on what and where. i bet old silver has a story to tell too. wern't silver coins melted by the government in 1982? i think i've heard something about a huge silver melt, but am not sure. if they melted most of the silver, then why is there so many silver coins you can still buy? you would think the government would almost wipe out the silver coins for good. if the banks incounter silver coins will they sent them to get melted? just thought i'd share my 2 new additions to you all! have you seen the price of silver latey! i was like gosh! when i saw the prices! i need to get to those banks and be buying those half dollars before it is too late! by the time i can drive, silver will probaly be totally out of circualtion. i just love to see the silver prices rise!!!:kewl:

 

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Mercs are a favorite of mine too. I only need the 16D and I will have my 1st set.

 

They are nice looking Mercs very clear images, I have a few in my dime collection as well :thumb:

De Orc :kewl:

 

Howdy,

What I like best about silver coins is their Ring when you drop them on a table top. With a common circ silver coin and a clad coin - try it.

What a beautiful sound.

rono

 

Nice set to collect. I only have an AG '16D, but a nice 1942/1 P (VF) that I got in 1997, so it has appreciate a lot in value.
Also, the 1942/1 D, I cherried from a bag of junk silver, it is now slabbed by NGC in an XF-45 holder. One of my best cherry picks.

 

I'm not too far away from completing this set but I've taken a break for a few weeks to try to catch up on work and the like.
I think this is going to be one of my most favorite sets I've done so far!

Speedy

 

nice part to your collection!

 

Very nice Mercs Coinlover. Theres nothing like the feeling you get when you complete your Merc collection.

 

thanks everyone! i think mercury dimes are my favorite coin too. i always love to flip common date/condition silver coins on a table. i just love to hear that ring. that ring is the best part of silver coins to me. silver coins have always been my favorite, every since i've started collecting. i guess i like it beacaes my dad has a bunch of it. he had gotton all of his silver coins out of circulation back in the 60's, 70's, and part of the 1980's. i would like to go back 30 years and coin roll hunt. i bet there was still a bunch of silver out there still. i wish we could go back in time!!!

 

I find mercury dimes a bit modern for my tastes, but still nice coins.....has anyone here got one in uncirculated or a proof ????

 

Oh, I do have a 1924 one anyway....one of the rejects from my mainstream collection...

 

Very awesome! Nothing like old silver coins. Just neat to have.

Phoenix

 

I got a roll of em for $20!!!!

 

great find! a roll of silver dimes today's melt is $52. you made a $32 profit from just buying the roll! were there any good dates in the roll?

 

I have a great love for the Merc dime. I collect mainly uncirculated Mercs but have some circulated in F-AU shape. I love the brillance of the uncirculated silver along seeing the art work in its best presentation.

If you want to learn some very interesting about the mercury dime, research the object on the reverse. Learning what it is, where it came from and what it was used for was fascinating for me.

 

The "melts" of 1982 had nothing to do with the Government but with the inflated price of silver in that year.
I was not a coin collector in those days but had a few rolls of silver quarters which I took to a local coin dealer and walked out with a few hundred dollars.I've never regretted it since I got a lot more than they would be worth today (probably):smile
Here's part of what happened:
In one case, the Hunt brothers -- Texas oilmen Nelson and William Hunt -- got in over their heads by trying to corner the market on silver. The run-up in prices, from less than $10 an ounce in mid-1979 to nearly $50 in early 1980, led people to sell heirlooms and melt down old silver quarters. But when the boom collapsed, the Hunt brothers ended up with about $1 billion in losses and charges of market manipulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

 

In 1960 my mother would go to the bank and bring home rolls of dimes and pennies. We kids (my sister and I) would get the pennies and she would get the dimes. We mainly searched for "S" coins since we were in the midwest and they were rare but we were filling out coin albums. Then we would roll up the rejects and sell them back to the bank. She still has her coins put up in a safe deposit box and I still have my pennies. My greatest find was a 1914-D penny but you could barely read the date and mint mark. I love to buy coins at auction and really like the Mercury Dimes. My finest is a 1925-S (Dads birth year) and it is a NGC MS66. Pretty good since there is only one MS67. Full Bands of course. Mom and Dads birth years are 1924 and 1925 and these coins are very expensive in the top grades especially with the "S" mint mark. The thing I like most about coin collecting is finding one in circulation. Just the other day I got change out of a dollar changer and found a 1943 silver nickel that I would guess to be VF.

 

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I found 5 , the dates are 1925 1924 1923 1923 and 1918. I'm guesing no real value .

 

I, too, have always loved the "Winged Liberty" dime. In 1965 I sold two sets (less 16D) for $400. for a down payment on a new 1965 hot Dodge! I had picked them out of change deposits from the vending machine folks( I worked in a bank) I now have 4 sets to work on. My number one set has 27 FSB and all the early coins are xf-BU. Great fun. Love em!!!

 

haybailer , you said. "Mom and Dads birth years are 1924 and 1925 and these coins are very expensive in the top grades especially with the "S" mint mark." are you saying the 1924 and 1925 are worth money ?