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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26450976, member: 27832&quot;]The <i>lightest</i> dimes, quarters, and halves I&#039;ve ever weighed (relative to their as-struck, 25-grams-per-dollar weight) have been Barbers. Maybe some SLQs as well. Those things circulated <i>very</i> heavily, and I wonder if the Fed slowed down their reclamation of worn coins during the 20th century. (But I don&#039;t wonder hard enough to go look up the relevant reports, at least not right now.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you&#039;re looking to maximize the amount of silver you get <i>per face value</i> amount, Barbers are indeed a bad bet. Best yield of silver is from 1964 issues, because they had so little time to circulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other interesting note -- my <i>tubes</i> of slick Barbers and SLQs actually weigh a good bit <i>more</i> than any others, because you can fit a lot <b>more</b> slicks into a tube! Losing the rim and the high points removes <i>some</i> weight, but a lot more <i>thickness</i>, so slicks pack more <i>densely</i> than barely-worn coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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