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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26705140, member: 10461&quot;]Good morning, and welcome to February 18th.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today we move on to the Winged Liberty Dime, better known as the <b>Mercury Dime (1916-45)</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a Mercury dime which started my numismatic journey. This year I will celebrate my 50th anniversary as a numismatist. On November 25, 1976, I was not quite eleven years old. That day was Thanksgiving Day, and we were visiting my step-grandmother&#039;s big old house in Atlanta. The grownups wanted me out of the kitchen, so they asked me to set the table for the upcoming feast. In the silverware drawer of the sideboard in the dining room, I found a 1936 dime. That coin, forty years old then, seemed incredibly ancient to me at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have it somewhere. Here it is- the very first coin in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/vy/zi3vaklwbocb.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is my current Mercury dime type coin. I chose a 1944 since that was my mother&#039;s birthyear.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/a3/sat5omruq49k.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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