mercury dime

[tycearoo]

im from mich does anyone if i can find mercs there i have not found any yet and how deep would they be

 

[BigCatDaddy]

There should be some in Michigan. But here's the catch...you have to get a coil over one. Silver coins are few and far between. None of us just goes out any old place and finds silver coins. You have to find old sites that no one has searched before and then you may come up empty handed. It sometimes takes imagination and sometimes just plain old Blind Hog luck to get a silver coin. They can turn up anywhere and seemingly nowhere sometimes. They can range from laying on the surface to 10 inches deep, no rhyme or reason to it. Patience and persistence is the name of the game!!!

 

[JB(MS)]

The Mercury dimes we find here in northeast MS are typically in the four to eight inch depth range, but occasionally they'll be found deeper or shallower. Old church sites, older schools, old parks, old home sites and similar places still have older silver coins that can be found, but a slow sweep speed, overlapping swings while keeping the coil at a constant height and level is required to consistently find older coins at depths of six nches or more.. A six inch deep, or deeper, silver dime is easy to miss, and many times dimes in the three to four inch range that are at an angle in the ground won't be heard when a fast sweep speed or poor swing technique is used. .

 

[Dodqe]

Found a 1927 Merc last weekend in my back yard (central New York State) with my Ace 250 with 4.5" coil. My first ever silver coin. It was about 6" down and surrounded by trash in an area I searched several times before. Low and slow...

 

[tycearoo]

Thanks