Very unusual coin find this morning !
WingedLiberty1957
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Someone explain how this might have happened.
So during my regular 2.5 mile morning walk, i noticed something round and shiny on the asphalt. Amazingly it turned out to be a mercury dime. It's a 1945-P in very rough shape, chewed up, prob. wouldn't grade, Melt value is only around $1.30. Still, I cannot figure out how this got into the middle of the street. I think it must have fallen there sometime in the past 24 hours since I walk the same path every day and any heavy rain would have washed it to the curb. But who would have a mercury dime in their pocket?
If it was a regular clad Roosevelt, that would be odd enough. A silver Roosevelt would be quite rare. But a Mercury dime? Ddds must be astronomical. If it was in much better condition (Near Unc) or if it was a rare date (like a 16D), I would put an ad in my local Lost and Found and find its owner. But with its value only a bit over $1, hardly seems worth it. Just curious if anyone has any scenarios that popped into their heads.
Maybe a remnant from a time traveler or aliens that abducted a WW2 plane out of the bermuda triangle? Bizarre.
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🥰 it is meant to be and definitely NOT a parking lot find and the event leading to the discovery …… we can only speculate.
Congrats on the rare finding!
What a great find. Any suggestion about how it got there would be pure speculation. I do hope you checked the surrounding area though. Might be more surprises. Cheers, Ricko
A mischievous coin collector, with rolls and rolls of silver dimes (Mercury and Roosevelt), knows the melt value and reasons, "it's only $1.30, wouldn't it be cool to just put this in a place where someone might discover it? Now, where to put it?" Me, I would NEVER do something like this.
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Guess #1: some kid had it in his pocket change, didn't know what it was, and threw it away.
Guess #2: a bird found it somewhere, ate it, and pooped it out.
I agree with #1
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You certainly don’t find those laying around anymore on top of the ground……..most are found under the ground now. Cool find…….can’t wait until tomorrow’s walk.
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That’s pretty cool!
Some pretty interesting potential origins for sure.
Another possibility is that an older, disheveled coin collector, after having just made the rounds to all the local coinstar reject troughs, having a pocket full of loose change booty, was apprehended by his furious spouse. Enraged that he wasn’t mowing the lawn, and was instead “AGAIN out in public, shamelessly digging through other peoples left-overs. Further aggravating matters, their own garbage deadline had been missed, their pails full and reeking of decomposing kitchen scraps. As she had encountered him, his pockets bulging, she had been desperately chased the local refuse truck down the street just as it exited their neighborhood. Sweating and grunting in her bathrobe, her hair in curlers, and he, in Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, too small for his rotund girth and stained with vintage red wine and dribbles of old mustard , his thick glasses grotesquely askew. A less than dignified struggle ensued and this coin bounced out of his pocket during the struggle.
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Thats a cool find. Last year while walking through the Home Depot parking lot I found a 1964 Roosie dime, that was the first silver I ever found in a parking lot.
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I found a 1938-P Merc lying in a parking lot a couple years ago. However, this particular parking lot happened to be just outside the Dalton, Georgia convention center where a coin show was going on.
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It was your personal training trying to get you to do more ab crunches
It was the old lady down the block with binoculars looking at your butt when you bent over
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It’s mine, I dropped it. Go ahead and send it to me.
You may have been "made" on a candid camera moment. Great find nonetheless!
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Nice find!
Last time I found a Mercury dime was last year. I was getting Wendy's through the drive-thru. I dropped some change the employee handed me, opened up my door and there was a Mercury dime on the ground.
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I hope you didn't touch it... might be a trap. You could get mercury poisoning.
That happened to me, but in a gas station parking lot with a Sacagawea dollar, and there was a car coming![:\](https://forums.collectors.com/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
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My guess is it's a pocket piece.
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There was a hole in something. Nice find. I look forward and down when I run and the nails/screws I pick up off the shoulder is satisfying. Peace Roy
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No way of knowing. Just think of how many people traverse that road each day and how many different life stories are occurring with each. I think it looks pretty good condition for a silver item lying on pavement, at least the obverse.
Great find.
Jim
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Not nearly as good as some of the speculation here ... some of which is pretty good!
... but could be a golf ball marker. Came out of someone's pocket accidentally with a keychain or something.
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Jared loose from the inside of a car at a car show.
Was there any type of activity nearby to support the date ?
School, trash day, or a B&E ? (breaking and entering)
I hear there is a coin collector who walks that route every day. I suspect the coin collector dropped it.
Wow... that's quite the find! I'd think it would be too small for a pocket piece... odd...
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It’s just @JoeyCoins wandering about with a hole in his pocket.
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