Back in the days when we children played with mercury, we noted that if you rubbed a ball of mercury onto a Mercury dime, it looked really shiny... for a while. When the mercury oxidized, it got dull and it became more dangerous, but we all survived unscathed. For a good look at mercury toxicity, see http://corrosion-doctors.org/Elements-Toxic/Mercury-toxicology.htm --John Ashcraft, RPT On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:54 PM, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote: > I thought earlier dimes were made from silver, not mercury. I'd think > that'd be kinda dangerous, wouldn't it? > ;-P > AnOn > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tom Rhea, Jr. <rheapiano at cox.net> wrote: > >> You can ignore the dimes and quarters before 1964; they're the clad ones. >> All the silver coins were 1963 and earlier. All the buffalo nickels are >> relatively valuable as are the mercury dimes. >> >> Tom >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101216/aee5b9c9/attachment.htm>
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