🏁 My 1st Found Mercury Dime 🏁

[thepest]

I got out for a few hours today... I went to my local trash lot... There used to be 5 houses there that were torn down when I was a kid... plenty of nails and can bits... with some good targets here and there... It's a great place to shake out a detector... I rolled through with my XLT first... And Pulled a cameo button...about 7 inches down... The pic is not that great... on The left side of the face... I could make out the word REGINA... The right side has a single wheat stalk... I changed detectors... And walked the same path of travel with my DFX (still learning it)... I found a couple of shell caps next to each other 6 inches down... Then I found what looks like a harness buckle... at 10 inches.... The other rusty thing was about 5 foot away... same depth... But The Mercury Dime... My 1st found Mercury Dime Believe It Or Not...was only 4 inches down... It's dated 1941... And it doesn't look like it came from the same dirt... But it did... I'd like to think I'm starting to figure the DFX out... This was a good day... For me.... 14 years to finally find a silver dime... I won't mention the pouch full of aluminum I dug to finally find one....

 

[laplander]

Persistence pays off!
HH Jeff

 

[Ohio pull tabs]

Go get it will become easier now you know the tone, good luck finding more

 

[JimmyCT]

Congratulations on your first Mercury dime!

 

[Mark kus]

Congratulations on the first and not the last!
Mark

 

[still looking 52]

Sweet little lady indeed, nice recovery.

 

[Elmy]

Yep...looks like Elsie Stevens to me

 

[SJones]

Congrats on the merc...

 

[Ted S]

Congrats!

 

[thepest]

Yep...looks like Elsie Stevens to me

had to look her up... but yes... it does kinda look like Elsie... I didn't realize modeling cameo buttons was a thing... I always thought the designer just made em up... still learning some thing new every day....

 

[Donna(NJ]

Love them Merc dimes, Congrats !!! First of any kind are always a thrill.
You must be in a relatively sparsely populated area. I couldnt imagine waiting 14 years
to find a silver Merc. One thing about metal detecting, its all about where you live that dictates
what you will find.

Yesterday, I was detecting an old amusement park with tons of melted aluminum. I got tired of digging all those great high tone POC signals.
I decided to jack up my discrimination to 90 on my Deus and only go for the coins. When I got home I had a great surprise.
Kinda thought at the time it might be silver but no way did I expect it to be a Barber quarter !!!!! It was totally black and corroded.
Aluminum foil and baking soda helped to clean him up.

If there's so much trash, just go for the gusto and looks for the silver. You'll never find gold with all that trash to dig.

HH
Donna(NJ)

 

[fwcrawford]

Congrats on your first Mercury dime….
I never get tired of finding them.

 

[JimmyCT]

Congrats on your first Mercury dime….
I never get tired of finding them.

Me either

 

[rick in mi]

Yep the mercs still fire me up. I also like recovering shot gun shells. Good hunt. Go out and find more!!!..hhrickinmi

 

[Ronstar]

Now you got the Merc the Barber is next!!! Keep working that area from different angles….. surprised you didn’t hit wheaties first but hey, pull the good stuff first!!! Good job and welcome to the “now I’m hooked forever” forum!!

 

[thepest]

Love them Merc dimes, Congrats !!! First of any kind are always a thrill.
You must be in a relatively sparsely populated area. I couldnt imagine waiting 14 years
to find a silver Merc. One thing about metal detecting, its all about where you live that dictates
what you will find.

Yesterday, I was detecting an old amusement park with tons of melted aluminum. I got tired of digging all those great high tone POC signals.
I decided to jack up my discrimination to 90 on my Deus and only go for the coins. When I got home I had a great surprise.
Kinda thought at the time it might be silver but no way did I expect it to be a Barber quarter !!!!! It was totally black and corroded.
Aluminum foil and baking soda helped to clean him up.

If there's so much trash, just go for the gusto and looks for the silver. You'll never find gold with all that trash to dig.

HH
Donna(NJ)

That Barber Quarter is an awesome find.... I wonder how many pouches of can bits and pop tops one of those will cost me...
I couldn't help but notice the NJ... I'm down in South NJ... We're Digging the Same Aluminum... NJ is full of it... And there's also allot of aluminum... Every Can since they were invented has been hit with a lawn mower down thisa way... Finding Vintage pull tabs from the 60's and 70's (the ones we made chains out of as kids) is considered a good day... I was beginning to think all the trash aluminum in the US was only here In South NJ... at least it's not just me... It's the whole state.... New Jersey's Got It....
Other than A few parks... It's all woods and farm fields here... The farmers don't want to let anyone look for colonial stuff anymore... They're worried about getting sued... I'm glad you have some places worth digging to go to... That Quarter was a great find...

 

[Donna(NJ]

That Barber Quarter is an awesome find.... I wonder how many pouches of can bits and pop tops one of those will cost me...
I couldn't help but notice the NJ... I'm down in South NJ... We're Digging the Same Aluminum... NJ is full of it... And there's also allot of aluminum... Every Can since they were invented has been hit with a lawn mower down thisa way... Finding Vintage pull tabs from the 60's and 70's (the ones we made chains out of as kids) is considered a good day... I was beginning to think all the trash aluminum in the US was only here In South NJ... at least it's not just me... It's the whole state.... New Jersey's Got It....
Other than A few parks... It's all woods and farm fields here... The farmers don't want to let anyone look for colonial stuff anymore... They're worried about getting sued... I'm glad you have some places worth digging to go to... That Quarter was a great find...

I beach hunt 99% of the time, so its always new clad. We go for the gold on the beach !!!! When times are tough, I start to head inland just to 'get my fix'. The Barber still came from the beach area but lke I said, the last of Sandy hurricane debris. Everything has been rebuilt and covered over. It was a very nice surprise.

HH
Donna(NJ)

 

[Mountaineer_Mac]

Nice!

 

[casull454]

Well done. Waiting for my next one.