Mercury dimes-superstitions,hoodoo......
 

I was pulling up info on Mercury dimes(seems to me they are drying up) and found this hoodoo voodoo site.

http://www.luckymojo.com/silverdime.html

"The African-American hoodoo tradition employs both dimes and two dollar bills in numerous money-drawing spells, mojo bags, and gambling "hands". The coins may be combined with a John the Conqueror root, a lodestone, sugar, or other ingredients.



According to some folks, a silver "Mercury" dime with a leap-year date (e.g. 1940) is especially propitious. These Mercury dimes do not really depict the Roman god Mercury, according to coin collector John Montierth (jmmontierth@ucdavis.edu) but "even though the coin in question was officially designed as Winged Liberty, everyone looks at it and thinks Mercury." Skip Floyd (SkipFloyd@worldnet.att.net), another coin collector, adds this information: "On March 3, 1916, the U. S. Treasury adopted the Winged Cap design of Adolph A. Weinman from a public competition. Weinman also won the award for the Half Dollar design. Not only is the face not that of Hermes or Mercury, it is NOT MALE. The portrait of Ms. Liberty is of Elsie Stevens, Mrs. Wallace Stevens." All that aside, the common name for this coin is still the Mercury dime, and that's how people who use the coin in conjure work refer to it.

A preference for the Mercury dime rather than another silver coin as a gamblers' charm makes a lot of sense when one recognizes that Mercury was the Roman god who ruled crossroads, games of chance, and sleight of hand tricks -- and as such he was equivalent to the......"

Re: Mercury dimes-superstitions,hoodoo......
 

Talk about your voodoo economics!