For anyone curious:
It's a pure silver quarter, need to check the price for silver.
Silver quarters were 6.25 grams of 90% pure silver. Silver is currently $0.91/g putting the value of the metal at about $5.10.
Coin collectors today will buy your 1925 quarter for $30-$100 depending on condition.
However in 1925 that quarter would be worth its face value of $0.25 — equal to $4.49 today.
Maybe they intended to invest it for a century and were counting on compound interest.
Or he just waited until 2009 and bought a bitcoin
Good thought. I figured it was just hyperbole.
I suppose the loss they are referring to is that they fumbled and dropped their cool mystique at a critical moment. How can you put a price on that? ...
Or perhaps they are talking about an accumulated loss. They're basically out there flipping and fumbling coins all day - and after the latest one they've lost the equivalent of $30000 in total.
Ok so by my math it would be close to 6760 quarters they would need to lose,so assuming a rate of 1 per day they would have started at the age of 16 and lost the last one at 30.
I can only assume that at the age of 30 our hero packed it in,quit hanging around looking for dames, got serious about that whole time machine he was thinking about, jumped into 2024 and made this post as a warning to all of us.
Inflation is the real joke here.
What would he have been flipping that was their equivalent of 25 cent coin?
$4.49
Based on my (probably wrong) math, either a penny or, like a 2 cent coin (those existed at some point, right?).
So the ratio of old money to new money is approximately .25 to 4.50, which means that the value of money has shrunk by a factor of about 18.
25 cents over 18 yields ~1.38 cents.
So if he took a penny, cut it into thirds, taped one of those thirds to another penny, and was able to flip that unbalanced mess, you could say he'd lost a modern quarter's worth of value.
A penny then is worth 18 cents now so he would need to flip a penny with a haypenny stuck to it.
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I had hopes to come up with a funny answer, but ...
1925 Standing Liberty Quarter Value
According to the NGC Price Guide, as of September 2024, a Standing Liberty Quarter from 1925 in circulated condition is worth between $5 and $125. However, on the open market 1925 Quarters in pristine, uncirculated condition sell for as much as $3750.
About 4 and a half dollars.
