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In folk magic, images of money are often used in spells to draw more money or a 'lucky' coin is carried to attract financial good fortune. The near-universal use of this symbolism one includes the

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charm, found in cultures as diverse as China, Europe, and the United States. Silver coins have been popular in European magic rituals from Medieval times onward. Encased coins, rolled coins, and specially-made good luck tokens are carried as lucky pocket pieces in many parts of the world, but in the United States, when it comes to standard-issue money, tradition dictates that the luckiest greenback is the rare $2.00 bill, and the luckiest coin is the silver dime.

European charms utilizing silver coins sometimes call for filing a mark such as an 'X' on the coin or bending it. Such transformations personalize the coin and make it a lucky token.

In Germany, from Medieval times to the present, it has been said that engraving the SATOR square on a silver plate or a silver coin is useful in putting out fires. One simply throws the coin or plate on the fire and the fire goes out. The SATOR square is a block letters that reads the same up, down, back, and forth. It looks like this:

S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S

For another example of how the ancient Roman SATOR square is used in German folk-magic, see the page on John George Hohman's 'Pow-Wows or The Long Lost Friend'.

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 African gambling and crossroads spirit variously called Ellegua, Legba, or Eshu, who had the same domain of influence and was known as the keeper of crossroads. Although the figure engraved on the dime was long ago changed to that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, many folks still prefer the old-style dime -- one hoodoo man i talked to told me, 'You need a Mercury dime to do you any good at all.'

The photo above at left (taken by the folklorist Newbell Niles Puckett in 1925) shows one way to wear a silver Mercury dime -- as an anklet. This is both a protective spell and an invitation to luck in games of chance. The photo at right shows the 'luckiness' of the coin: It is a little 'LUCKY Dime Register Bank' only 2 1/2 inches square and about half an inch high; it counts your dimes as you drop them in, all the way up to $5.00. It dates from the 1930s.

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Silver Dimes