Contest Time! Winner will be sent a mercury dime - UPDATE: Winner announced

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pcgs69
pcgs69 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
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Update: guitarwes is the winner! Guessed it spot on - #400 is a 1942 Mercury dime. Guitarwes gets a Mercury dime!

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Thanks for guessing everyone!


Although I have technically already passed this milestone, I have kept my two stages of detecting separate and will continue to keep both instances separate.

Since getting back into detecting in 2009, 394 silver coins have come to light by the ol' E-trac. Breakout is:

2009: 51
2010: 64
2011: 62
2012: 165
2013: 52 and counting

The contest is to guess what silver coin #400 will be (assuming there isn't an alien invasion that renders all metal detectors useless). You have to guess the date, mint mark, denomination, and design (if needed such as 1916 dimes), and maybe even Country, as Canadian coins show up from time to time. The person who gets the closest will be sent a mercury dime. Contest ends whenever #400 shows up...hopefully it doesn't stretch on too long. One guess per person.

Good guessing!

In order to avoid dupe guesses, I'll try to keep a running list of guesses:

1943P US war nickel Dockwalliper
1944-D War Nickel pocketpiececommems

1911 Dime Bayard1908
1912 Barber dime lordmarcovan
1935 dime demodigger
1942 Merc Dime guitarwes
1943 Mercury head dime daOnlyBG
1943 D merc millennium
1944 Dime ROCKETMAN
1945 P Mercury dime GrumpyEd
1946 dime AUandAG
1957 dime Cakes
1959 Roosie OldEastside
1964 dime mr1874

Canadian Dimes
1963 Canadian Dime WhiteTornado

1942 P Washington Quarter hchcoin
1943 quarter ricko
1963 washington quarter johnny9434

1964 JFK Half DRJTC

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  • hchcoin
    hchcoin Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I am going with my dad's B-day. 1942 P Washington Quarter.
  • demodigger
    demodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
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    A see your future and it looks like 1935 dime
  • AUandAG
    AUandAG Posts: 25,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1946 dime.

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  • daOnlyBG
    daOnlyBG Posts: 1,060 ✭✭
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    1943 Mercury head dime
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  • ROCKETMAN
    ROCKETMAN Posts: 200 ✭
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    Thats an easy one! 1944 Dime.
  • GrumpyEd
    GrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
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    1945 P Mercury dime

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  • DRJTC
    DRJTC Posts: 54
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    1964 JFK Half
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1943 quarter....Cheers, RickO
  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    a 1963 washington quarter. good luck all
  • guitarwes
    guitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭
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    1942 Merc Dime.

    Good luck!
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  • Bayard1908
    Bayard1908 Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭
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    1911 Dime
  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,338 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sweet! Thanks for the chance.

    I'll go with a 1912 Barber dime, since that was the last piece of silver I personally dug. Obviously the 1940s Merc dime guessers have better odds, but I know you find some nice Barbers and older stuff too, so here's hopin'.

    And 1912 is a relatively common Barber dime date. I've found two so far.

    Keep it beepin', pcgs69! Here's hopin' we'll all be wrong and you'll find a Pine Tree Shilling! image

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • WhiteTornado
    WhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
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    How about a 1963 Canadian Dime

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  • millennium
    millennium Posts: 3,305
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    I'll say a 1943 D merc........
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  • Dockwalliper
    Dockwalliper Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭
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    1943P US war nickel (My first silver after returning to the hobby).
  • OldEastside
    OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1959 Roosie

    Steve
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  • mr1931S
    mr1931S Posts: 7,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1964 dime

    "Two things are infinite: human stupidity and the universe; and I'm not sure about the universe."
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    Mistakes are natural. But repeated mistakes without reflection are something else. That may be the “stupidity” he was referring to. In research, he admitted uncertainty openly. “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” This shows humility. Even a Nobel laureate accepted doubt. That humility makes the quote less cynical and more observational.

  • Cakes
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    First off very impressive results.

    1957 dime.

    Thanks,
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  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1944-D War Nickel. I can't believe how many of these(War Nickels) you find as well as all of the other silver.
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  • LochNESS
    LochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
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    I know we're supposed to choose silver types but I think it'll be a silvery-colored Canada dime, because they're magnetic! If I have to pick a date ... I'll go 2008!

    Actually they've been magnetic since 1968. But recent issues have a high steel content in addition to the nickel.

    Officially called a 10 Cent piece, although "dime" predominates in English-speaking Canada. It is nearly identical in size to ours.

    The word "dime" comes from the French word "dîme" meaning "tithe" or "tenth part."
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  • pcgs69
    pcgs69 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>I know we're supposed to choose silver types but I think it'll be a silvery-colored Canada dime, because they're magnetic! If I have to pick a date ... I'll go 2008!

    Actually they've been magnetic since 1968. But recent issues have a high steel content in addition to the nickel.

    Officially called a 10 Cent piece, although "dime" predominates in English-speaking Canada. It is nearly identical in size to ours.

    The word "dime" comes from the French word "dîme" meaning "tithe" or "tenth part."
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    I pulled out a Canadian dime a few weeks ago... saw a little shimmer from it... it was under a root and everything. Thought, "ALRIGHT, SILVER!" Got it home... 1980. Canadian coins don't brown like U.S. coins do when in the ground. A couple years ago saw the silver-colored edge of quarter and figured it was silver...Nope! modern Canadian.
  • pcgs69
    pcgs69 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
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    we have a winner!
  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,338 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    WTG, Wes! Nice guess! It was a pretty safe bet, probability-wise.

    And congrats on an awsome milestone to pcgs69!

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Congratulations GuitarWes...Cheers, RickO
  • OldEastside
    OldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Congrats GuitarWes and thanx pcgs69

    Steve
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  • johnny9434
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    congrats wes, wtg image
  • guitarwes
    guitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭
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    I seeded it the night before he went diggin to increase my chances....... image I flew overnight from Ga to his dig location and flew back the same the same night. I think I might come out in the red if I was planning on making any money on the giveaway Dime vs. airplane fuel. image

    Thanks for the giveaway pcgs69! I'll pay the generosity forward.
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  • millennium
    millennium Posts: 3,305
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    Congratulations to both of you guys! A great milestone, and guitarwes the lucky bum....:-)
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