Who can tell me something interesting about the Mercury Dime?

Question

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Answer 1

The Mercury Dime is 17.9 millimeters in diameter, it was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman. It is 90% silver and 10% copper, it weighs 2.50 grams. It was designed in 1916. The design featured a portrait of Lady Liberty facing left, wearing a winged cap. It had a resemblance to the Roman god, Mercury, which is why it is called the Mercury dime.

Answer 2

It isn't Mercury or Hermes. It's actually a Liberty Dime and the lady with the winged libery cap is Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. I wrote an article on the USA's Greco-Roman "goddesses" and that was one of the cool things I found out. The article will be posted later this month. I need to publish the page this week.

Answer 3

None of the mercury dimes bears the dates of 1922, 1932, or 1933. A valuable variety is an overdate, where 1942 was stamped over a 1941 die at the Philadelphia mint. A less obvious example from the same years is from the Denver mint.

Answer 4

One thing its design does not depict, however, is Mercury, the messenger of the gods in Roman mythology. The portrait on its obverse is actually that of Liberty wearing a winged cap symbolizing freedom of thought. Thus, the coin more properly is known as the Winged Head Liberty dime. But the misnomer "Mercury" was applied to it early on and, after many years of common usage, has stuck.

Answer 5

Mercury Dimes 1916-1945 Coin Guide. CoinResource is one of the largest, most comprehensive sites dedicated to promoting numismatics and the coin collecting

Answer 6

The most significant thing you need to know about this old dime is the back, Turn it over and you see something called a "Fasces", basically a bundle of sticks with an ax coming out from the middle. Fasces were carried by ancient Roman lawmakers called lictors, as proof of their powers of life and death. Mussolini's "Fascist" party made use of the fasces to demonstrate their power (note- we get the word fascist from fasces). Since Mussolini's party began using the fasces as their symbol, the US stopped the design on the back of the Mercury dime in the early 1940's.

Answer 7

My parents had the back ground ou one cut out and had it made in to a necklace at Magic Moutain(b4 it became Six Flags) for me when I was a kid. I was really cool. That's all i got on that dime.

Answer 8

There is a lot of books written about the mercury dime... There is even some writting about magic being use in its creation.... I feel that you should just use your search engine to look many of these things up.......................................................

Answer 9

face value , still worth 10 cents