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Message:: [QUOTE="Derrick Combs, post: 5002710, member: 109473"]Had to be about 1986. I was about 10. My dad had a baby food jar in the closet he kept change in. There was a 1942 mercury dime sticking out the side, obverse visible. I asked him what it was and he told me and gave it to me. Over the next couple years I collected a few other circulated coins. Then I hit my teens and forgot about coins. He died around 94. Fast forward to a couple years ago. I had moved to New Hampshire from Illinois and was going through the few things I had left that I brought with me. Found those old coins. Even that dime. That I have had over 30 years now. It's in my safe in an envelope with that story for my kids. Not sure about the mint mark. And I need to check to just make sure it wasn't a 1942/1 overdate. However I didn't know until after I had cleaned it that you don't do that. I was ten! It's the only one I ever cleaned though. Just thought I would share this story...[/QUOTE]