This is very subjective and depends from one person to another, but yes, I would go that to someone completely new to VCS or someone coming from one of the "old school" VCSs, Mercurial will seem easier.

For example, adding files, the non-existence of the index in Hg, the ease of going back to some old revision and branching from there (just update and commit) as some of the most "obvious" examples. Now most of features of one system can be emulated in another and vice versa, but that requires some knowledge in Git, while in Mercurial the defaults (if you'll allow me to call them that) are rather "user friendly". Those little things - the switch here and there, the non-obvious behaviour in one command and so on ... these things add up, and in the end, one system seems more easy to use than the other.

Just to make the answer complete; I use git, but when recommending a VCS for someone who's "new to them", I almost always recommend Mercurial. I remember, when it first came into my hands, it felt very intuitive. It is my experience that Mercurial produces less wtf/minute than Git.