I am trying to implement jQuery animateNumber, and I have it working like the demo just fine. However, I want to modify it so that it pulls the number from the HTML, rather than setting it in the script. I tried the following, but it just shows "NAN." What am I doing wrong?

    <div class="stat-title animate-number">$16,309</div>

    <script>
    $('.animate-number').each(function(){

        var value = new Number;

        // Grab contents of element and turn it into a number
        value = $(this).text();
        value = parseInt(value);

        // Set the starting text to 0
        $(this).text('0');


        $(this).animateNumber(
        {
            number: value,

        },
        1000
        )

    });
</script>