Where wine and coins collide

Poking around the bottle shop today and noticed this bottle...

It's Mercury Head Cab Sav from Orin Swift Winery. That's a real dime attached to the bottle. Kinda cool. Also expensive!!!

http://www.orinswift.com/2012MercuryHead

full disclosure: this is not an ad! i just thought it was cool!

 

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I'll drink to that!.That is cool I wonder if the Mercury is easily removable?

 

What happens when they use up all of the available supply of common-date Mercs?

Chris

 

Stick with Gallo. Personally, I rather enjoy Evan Williams but no 'Merks'.......

That's Riddick talkin'.........

 

Somewhere in that company is a coin connoisseur with real taste.

Rick L.

 

I once ate gold leaf on a cruise ship once.... wish I had pocketed it instead.

 

$95 a bottle?!!? That'll buy me 31 bottles of 3-Buck Chuck... and a Mercury dime. Or a roll of Mercs and a bottle of still-pretty-nice wine. (As you can probably guess, my tastes are not refined.)

 

Back in the day-Richards Wild Irish Rose-$2.00 a pop.

 

All I got to say bud weis er preferably the light

 

Mainebill, I think you've got a frog in your throat.

 

That'd take a lot of bottles of wine.

 

Where do wine and coins meet?

Why, at Charmey's table of course. LOL

 

I think it's a 42/1 overdate!!

 

You just can't see it until you get to the bottom of the bottle.

 

If someone placed a mercury dime valued at $95 and a bottle of this in front of me and said "Pick one, no charge!", I'd probably take the wine.

A dime that expensive is too nice to fit in with my merc collection.

 

Alas, went to their website where they had a higher resolution image. It was a 1944. Obverse VF, possibly cleaned. So... buy the wine, not the coin?

 

Thunderbird was fifty cent twice....and then there was a song something like " you get a nickel I'll get a dime we'll get together and buy some wine"
Ahh those were the days