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<p>[QUOTE="petro89, post: 1591847, member: 17048"]Yeah you gotta go for Barber halves on this one, if simply due to the challenge that Mr. Flute mentioned. It is a very very difficult set to acquire in a nice, honest mid-grade. AU/BU's are thousands of dollars, and all you see at most places are polished coins or AG-G4's that are worn slick. The difficulty finding nice VF-XF examples has given me an appreciation of this series. It was definately the workhorse coin of the time period. I do like Frankies, but you can get nice graded 64-65's in practically every date for a couple of $20 bills any day of the week. I've been working on the Barber half set for years and years, and my Dansco is still mostly empty. Not because I won't shell out a good amount of money for a nice coin, but because any nice coins out there are priced at multiples of any price guide because they are so difficult to find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="petro89, post: 1591847, member: 17048"]Yeah you gotta go for Barber halves on this one, if simply due to the challenge that Mr. Flute mentioned. It is a very very difficult set to acquire in a nice, honest mid-grade. AU/BU's are thousands of dollars, and all you see at most places are polished coins or AG-G4's that are worn slick. The difficulty finding nice VF-XF examples has given me an appreciation of this series. It was definately the workhorse coin of the time period. I do like Frankies, but you can get nice graded 64-65's in practically every date for a couple of $20 bills any day of the week. I've been working on the Barber half set for years and years, and my Dansco is still mostly empty. Not because I won't shell out a good amount of money for a nice coin, but because any nice coins out there are priced at multiples of any price guide because they are so difficult to find.[/QUOTE]
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