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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1717986, member: 44079&quot;]I think that is the whole point of the thread.&nbsp; What kind of dateless (i.e., JUNK) silver coin do you like the most?</p><p><br /></p><p>I too like the Liberty quarters.&nbsp; For some reason I also find them to be the junk US coin I encounter the most in dateless (junk) condition.&nbsp; Dateless Mercury dimes come a close second.&nbsp; Perhaps because of their larger size, I have yet to encounter a Morgan or Peace silver dollar in a truly dateless condition.&nbsp; I do see dateless Barber coins, but they usually are trading for more money than do Liberty or Washington quarters.&nbsp; So, I pass on them.&nbsp; Again, I have only a few dateless Washingtons, or Roosevelts and rarely encounter them.&nbsp; I think something was happening in the 1920s (the Depression?) and coins circulating in that era tend to have a lot more wear than coins from earlier or later years. Even Buffalo nickels tend to have lots more wear than early Barber or Jefferson nickels.&nbsp; &lt;I recognize that the early V nickels and half dimes in fair or better condition probably were culled by collectors before the Depression began, while the others mostly probably simply totally wore out in the Depression era, to the extent we see only a few of those in Junk bins.&gt; I suspect the coins were being passed around hand to hand in small barters a lot more prior to 1930 without making it to a bank or channels where the worn ones would be culled and melted down.&nbsp; Again, in that era, many of the rural banks where people had previously brought their deposits, closed and vanished, which meant the coins continued to pass from hand to hand instead of being brought to the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, the lack of stars on the reverse indicates to me the quarter in close up was probably a 1916 or an early 1917, but which one(?), which is why it is in my junk bin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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