Check out the 1916-D Dime and the 3 leg Buffalo. They also show the right and wrong way to handle a coin.
My oldest coin book 1981 got it at at a garage sale for $1you won't believe the coin prices also will take more pictures soon.
A quarter back in 1949 is not the same worth it is now. That was a lot of money back then. You're probably still to young to understand inflation and value of currency and the changes over the decades.
When I was kid in the mid to late 1950s, you got into a movie for 15 cents. The adults paid a quarter. A Coke at the movie theater was a dime and a bag of chips or popcorn was 15 cents. So for a quarter, you got your movie snack. Gasoline was 29 cents a gallon which included 8 or 9 cents in road tax. Getting $5 for anything seemed like a fortune. My aunt used to give me $5 for my birthday, and I felt rich when I was in the 5th grade.
Don't forget most people didn't realize there coins were made of silver back than and was worth 25 cents in silver look at how much a 1949 quarter is worth now.
Yes... I know... You do realize I'm 16? Not trying to be rude but I know a lot more than you think I do...
I remember those days. For $.25 so could go to the corner store and buy a medium fountain drink, get a full size candy bar (larger than today), get a comic book and still get change back.
But to put things in perspective, if you daddy made $10,000 a year, that was "big money." Now it's less than the poverty level.
Fine.. Ok.. If you know then you know.. Leave it alone. No need to get so defensive.. But there have been a few threads where you show you don't know a few obvious things.. Sorry
dad and son kerfuffle...... somebody can't have the car tonight. if anybody understands inflation, the under 25 crowd does. us old it i 6:30 pm time for bed guys have nothing on the it ability of the youngsters. they navigate shopping sites on line with the same lion for the kill ability that i did as a kid trying to decide if i wanted 2 rootbeer hard candies, or 1 black licorice roll with the piece of hard cherry drop in the center, or 3 mary janes, for 2 cents. there was only 1 candy store and no amazon to compare the biggest bang for the buck, and whether to buy tops cards in the #1 box being sold for $139.00 now, or wait for a graded box at 250 later, that may or may not contain a desired card. the youngsters are doing just fine, i think, and probably understand $ much more than we do, thanks to robin hood platforms and bitcoin transactions. lets be honest...i in 100 old fellows would even know how to navigate bitcoin and/or put it in a wallet or what the heck a wallet even is. it is not the thing my dad bought me on my 13th birthday made of cow leather. tolerance in all things, especially with ankle biters, because the ankle biters also know how to use computers and use a cell phone and can be a formidable adversary.
The Blue Book was the wholesale guide so you probably could not have the coins at those prices from a dealer. I can remember I was a kid seeing Barber dimes listed for 10 cents in the Blue Book. My response was, “Who’s selling?”
