Welcome to the Tarnished Truth. YOUR newsletter. When I first started to really buy coins, not just collect what you could find from circulating coins, you could get nice examples of just about any twentieth century coin except the Barber series for a reasonable price. I remember that you could get almost any Washington Quarter in the nineteen thirties and early forties except the thirty two D and S, the thirty six D, and the forty D in AU for just a couple dollars. A higher grade Barber dime, quarter or half however would drain your coin money stash at a coin show in a real hurry. I guess I was always kind of jealous of those earlier collectors who were able to buy these magnificent coins at a much more reasonable rate. Well maybe the cycle is coming around because in this last year I bought an AU 58 Barber Quarter at a show for less than the AU 58 1935 D Washington I bought at the same show. Of course I probably could have bought the 1941-1964 short set in AU at that earlier time for about the same amount as either coin.