First Mercury Dime

Finding a mercury head dime may be no big deal for many detectorists (one who metal detects), but for me it was a BIG deal.  For all the time I have search and all the coins I have dug, I have never found one until yesterday.
I could tell mother nature did not want me to go metal detecting as I backed out of the garage and saw the little snowballs hitting the windshield.  I knew it was not suppose to be a good day, but I had the day off work and was going to try anyway.  I met a few other people at the park at 8 am and we started searching the park, stopping several times to let the more intense rain and snow showers pass over.  It was not all that successful, only managing to find a small silver ring and some modern clad coins.
Lunch time came and I offered to buy lunch at JDawg's for a couple of the detectorists who are also BYU students before they left to do homework.
Me and the remaining hunters decided to search an area on the south side of the BYU campus next to the duck pond.  They had removed some dirt preparing to install a paved path.  I found the coin where they had removed the grass and some dirt.  With the grass and some of the dirt removed my XLT was able to locate the dime.  As the dime fell out of a clump of dirt I did an little yell and them looked around to see who was watching.  Turned out to be a good day after all.