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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3987021, member: 27832&quot;]The supply-demand-grade thing is complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, Barber halves aren&#039;t nearly as popular as, say, Lincoln cents or Mercury dimes. There are quite a few Barber halves with mintages under 1,000,000 that can be had for melt value in low grades. Just <i>try</i> to find a 1921-D dime or a 1914-D cent for the price of a common date, even as a cull.</p><p><br /></p><p>Get up to VF or higher, and suddenly there are <i>no</i> cheap Barber halves. As a whole, the series worked hard, and <i>half a</i> <i>dollar</i> was quite a lot of money to set aside just because it looked shiny.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barber quarters are yet another story. There, the three keys have <i>really</i> low mintages, and will cost you dearly even as culls. Even the semi-keys seem to get more of a premium in low grades than the correspondingly low-mintage halves. On the other hand, most coins in the series don&#039;t spike in value until they get up past XF.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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