Another multiple silver day

Dan(NM)

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I went back to the spot that produced a lot of stuff yesterday. It was like somebody flipped a switch and it was over as fast as it started lol. So I roamed around for about an hour and a half and hit another hot spot. The area was about 40 ft wide and 60 ft long where most of the stuff came out. 2nd silver ring in 2 days.
 

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Looks like your on the silver train Dan. Congrats on the shiny, wheats and a pretty decent clad haul to top it off. Well done. Mark
 
Does the 1926 Mercury dime have a mintmark? (on the reverse, near the bottom, just to the left of the olive branch alongside the fasces). Because if it's an "S" for the San Francisco mint, that is a key one for collectors of the type and worth a bit more than others of the variety.

Also, it's a bit odd to be finding an Austrian 2 groschen coin deep in the heart of Texas, huh? It's not particularly valuable, but still interesting because of the perennially controversial national seal on the reverse. If you look closely, you'll see the eagle is holding a hammer and sickle (also symbols of Communism), and the broken chains were added after the War to symbolize liberation from the Nazis--but were also reminiscent of Karl Marx' famous dictum to the workers that "you have nothing to lose but your chains". See this Associated Press article for more details: https://apnews.com/article/bb4863acaf4ea9f1b1e4294859b347e9. The controversy was a bit reminiscent of the one in some wingnut conspiracy circles surrounding the Roosevelt dime when it first came out in '46 because of the little "JS" found under Roosevelt's head. Some "Bircher" flouride-in-the-water precious bodily fluids alarmist types claimed that Joseph Stalin had somehow managed to sneak his initials onto the new coin as part of a grand Commie conspiracy. In fact, it was just the artist's initials, John Sinnock, a common feature found on most modern American coinage.
 
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