Actual Selling Price Of Silver Quarters?

mkman123: just go to (forbidden site) and take a look.

I find the US Silver Coin Value Calculator (by our own markn) more useful than the forbidden site,
mainly because you can check the value of more than one denomination of coin at once.
That's why I've had it linked it in my signature.

Example: To check the bullion value of a " State Quarters" (or 2010-11) Silver Proof Set, enter one 90% JFK Half-Dollar, five Washington quarters, and one Roosevelt dime.

A traditional Silver Proof Set (pre-1965, 1992-98) is one 90% Half-Dollar, one Quarter and one Dime.

Using the inflation calculator link, I have just done a reverse calculation.

I entered the date 1962 and the exit date 2009, which was the latest allowed.

The reason the 1962 date was selected is that 1964 was the latest date that 90% silver was issued. It is now 2011, so I backdated to the 1962 start date.

With these date selections, the reverse calculation showed up the inflation rate over the 47 years as:

4.25%

I used a reiterative process, with the index function on a calculator.