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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 519211, member: 6763&quot;]Yes, they have been asleep for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>pre-1999 (or so) I used to buy Barbers (dimes, quarters, and $1/2&#039;s) for junk silver for most dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;ll never happen again.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you think that the series is still asleep, take a range of Red Books, say: 1995, 1999, 2002 and 2009 and compare the values for the different series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today a 1914 Barber $1/2 in good lists at $200.</p><p>How about these (actual) buy prices:</p><p><br /></p><p>G-4 $18 (1998)</p><p>VG $22 (2001)</p><p>F $23&nbsp; (2001)</p><p><br /></p><p>That is a sleeping series?</p><p><br /></p><p>Same comments&nbsp; for many dates in the dimes &amp; quarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do a price trends for the 1896 S quarter, and the 1913 S quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>In those days if a dealer got a key or even a better date they would call me over to the table&nbsp; to alert me.</p><p>(I was one of the few who was buying them.)</p><p>Now?</p><p>They still ask me, but know that I bargain hard.</p><p>(and they can usually get mmore from someone else).</p><p><br /></p><p>sorry if I come across poorly, but Yes, the series is still asleep for some dates, and just a little more interest in each one will really awaken the prices on all of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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