A Blast From The Past -1916 Star Coin Guide More Pages Added

Could you post more pictures of the prices? Those are insanely low!

BALLS.
I have a 1963 Blue Book and I was impressed with the $20 gold dollar prices.
If only I could send some money back in time for my great grandparents to invest... Lets say... $3000 to buy gold coins at $1.50 each. Hello Bently dealer!

I imagine the Standing Liberties were going for about 25¢.
"Fillet head" evidently refers to a bust of Liberty with her hair tied with a ribbon. Maybe that explains the name "Flowing Hair;" it's just the opposite of the "Fillet Head" coins that replaced them (untied vs tied hair). Now the "Fillet" has gone, and we've forgotten why they originally called them "Flowing!"

That's crazy! Thanks for sharing! Definitely a really cool item to have! I thought my 1974 RedBook had low prices. Lol, I always have to remind myself that $2.00 was quite a bit back then, I second wishing to be able to send money back to my family! Cha Ching!!

25 bucks for a Stella Wowoodness!

And not a grade to be seen, just a range of price.

1916, huh? Well, let me put a hundred dollars into the Way-Back Machine. I'll ask my Great Aunt Tootsie to stop by Stacks and pick up a couple of those Stellas (Four Dollar Pieces.) She would be 16 years old at the time.

I just happened to have an 1938 edition of pretty much the same thing (got it recently from Secret Santa), so I just had to check; prices are slightly higher but still ridiculous.
Stellas are $25-60 and $75-175 respectively.
Trade dollars are only accepted in proof, and even then worth less than a dollar (except for the last two years).
Two-cent pieces are all 2 to 10 cents except for 1872 which is 5 to 20 cents and 1873 which is $0.50 to $2. Didn't check three-cent pieces (yet).
Prices for a lot of Californian gold are ridiculous from the other side: ridiculously high. I know they're really rare and worth a lot even now, but what appears to be among the most expensive coins in the entire list (the only ones above are 1804 dollars, 1870-S $3 pieces, and a few early half eagles for some reason) is kind of a little too far.
Also, they seem to be unaware of the existence of 1916 Standing Liberty quarters (well that or ignore them, but I kind of doubt that one).

Coincidentally, for those with time machines getting working money for 1938 is something like fifteen times cheaper than for 1916: dateless buffaloes. Lots and lots of dateless buffaloes. You can be assured there's nothing there from after 1938 :-) (With 1916, your cheapest option appears to be Morgan dollars. Just check there's no 1921 ones mixed in.)
And, I just imagined your "great aunt Tootsie" saying that she would exchange shiny Morgan silver dollars (i.e. low MS ones, brought from the future) for any other real dollar coins - Trade dollars, Seated dollars, gold dollars, whatever. I wonder which ones she would get most of...

Just like today!

One thing I always try to point out whenever someone starts to show off prices from one of these books is that these were B Max Mehl's BUYING prices from the general public who knew nothing about coins. You are looking at the 1916 version of todays hotel coin buyers. The prices Mehl would SELL these coins at were much higher and they also sold for much more at auction. The Star Rare Coin books do NOT reflect the true retail or even wholesale prices of the time.