Finding My 1909-S VDB

Carl,
That's interesting.
During the time I collected in the early '60s I never found a Barber dime, Quarter, or Half, or Indian cent. Not even a worn or common date one.
I've often wondered when they dropped out of circulation....when they ceased to be commonly found.
Steve

Not sure they ever really ceased to be commonly found. Just slowly vanished do to many reasons. Way back in the 40's and 50's there were not many coin collectors around. Few, coin shops and the ones that were around were also for stamps, hobbies like model airplanes, trains, etc. Red Bood was the only coin book around so again, not much interest for most kids in collecting coins. No internet, little TV and few stations you know. I only ever knew one other kid that collected coins back then. His house was robbed though and never went back to collecting coins. Halves were mostly Standing Liberty and some others. A seated Liberty coin was not uncommon but was fading away. What I thought was great was when someone would slip my Dad a 0.20 piece instead of a quarter trying to cheat him.
You must remember way back then even what is considered real valuable today in coins was just no big thing.