Hello all! Some call them Mercury Dimes or Winged Liberty Head dimes. So, I came up with this thread for today, April 1st. I am calling it, "Winged Liberty Wednesday!". I don't have many but a small amount of one's that I've dug while metal detecting. Here are Two.... Please post yours also..... Any dime, token or medal of the Winged Liberty will do.
Almost 2 years ago. On April 14th, 2024 I metal detected 2 Winged Liberty Head Dimes and this neat Mercury Medallion..
This humble 1936 dime is the coin that started my numismatic adventure. On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, when I was not quite 11 years old, we were at my grandmother's house. The adults wanted me out of the kitchen, so I was asked to set the table for the upcoming feast. The silverware drawer was in a huge old sideboard in the dining room of her grand old Atlanta house. In that drawer, I found a 1936 Mercury dime! It seemed incredibly ancient to me at the time... wow... forty years old. I also found a 1948 Franklin half that had been shot with a bullet, and a 1943 steel cent. Grandmama let me keep the Merc dime and the steel cent, but not the gunshot Franklin half. That was a souvenir of some uncle's marksmanship and had apparently been shot in midair, Annie Oakley style.
