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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rld14, post: 489597, member: 16133&quot;]SLQ for me of course <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Problem with collecting them is multiple, like Joe said they are expensive and for a ton of reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>1) They never made very many of them, there&#039;s 37 Business strike coins in the series, only 10 of those 37 coins had mintages over 10 Million, of thoise 9 were under 15 Million and only 1 was at 27 Million.&nbsp; Less than 227 Million SLQs were ever minted, by the end of 1939 there were over 220 Million washington quarters minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) They didn&#039;t hold up, SLQs were highly prone to losing their dates quickly, as we all know.&nbsp; Meanwhile an AG Barber or Washington can easily be identified datewise.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this means no cheap filler coins for key dates as most lower grade pre-25s are not identifiable.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) The 1916 is the killer, a trashed P/FR dateless example is $1,500, the cheapest I have seen a decent circulated example sell for recently is still over $4,000 (And you can buy a nice MS one for under $15,000).</p><p><br /></p><p>All of this is a shame because they are beautiful coins and I have lots of fun chasing down die varieties, since I got a copy of the Knauss book I don&#039;t seem to have a life anymore <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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