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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3270082, member: 99642&quot;]Actually Liberty Head is correct.&nbsp; Winged Liberty to be more precise.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mercury Dime is a misnomer. Most non-numismatic people, when this dime was first issued, assumed this bust was of Mercury, the messenger to the Greek Gods.</p><p>However, the design is actually meant to represent &quot;Freedom of Thought&quot;, with the idea that Lady Liberty, given wings, would be free to take liberty everywhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, like most people, right or wrong, I also refer to this coin as the Mercury Dime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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