Elbesaar

Keeping the Thread alive...

...here's another...going out soon to be crossed out of its PCI holder:

Just picked this up from Tom Casey...its in a PCGS 58 holder

Speaking of 1893 dimes...here's a coin I just bought off of Casey...also in a PCGS 58

Speaking of Barbers has any one some info on the 25C 1916 D/d, how rare is it really and finest none?

And on the 10c 1893/2 same questions.

I love varieties so these two interest me greatly, are they really varieties or are these another Red Book blunder, that is they are very prevalent but the Red Book just exaggerates its rarity etc.?

I don't think the D/d is all that scarce, as I have seen a few but never really thought of adding one to my collection because it was a major variety.

Here's my 1893 / 2 Dime - its in a PCGS 58 holder:

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Just picked this one up at a Ft Myers coin show:

I finally made it to the Ft Myers coin show this Saturday and picked up a few nice circulated Barber Halves - sorry no images - and I also picked this stunning 1906-D

Half Dollar :

Here is a Barber dime.

Who's killing who...that's some dime you've got there !!!

Here's a couple of quarters on their way to me...

Shane...Love the look of the 1888-O Morgan - very nice -

I just picked up a couple of upgrades for my Barber quarter collection:

Here's a 1893-S half in my raw book:

I was away on vacation when another 1893-S was up for auction at DLRC, this one was in PCGS 58. The buyer was kind enough to offer me his undergraded coin for my second tier set which is below:

Another half - and one tough coin to locate :

I sent this coin into NGC for Presidential Review last January.

They studied it for six months without making a determination.

Certifying a superlative rarity doesn't happen very often.

If this coin had a normal size mint mark they certainly

wouldn't have kept it six months.

The size of the mint mark is a touch larger than that of my

1892-O Micro O but considerably smaller than the normal mint mark.

Sorry for the smallish images - they're all I have at the moment.

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Amazing Barbers everyone.

Please pace yourselves though...we want a high Thread Count...multiple

coins in one post will eventually limit the overall number of post-counts.

Here's my favorite Half:

Great coins everyone...

Here's a half that's in my second tier set...although it could just as easily be compared to my first tier set's coin:

The Mega Thread accross the street has hit over a thousand posts...lets see how quickly we can surpass that figure.

Any Barber designed coin can be shown, including Commems, so, lets have some fun over here showing what you're collecting.

I'll start with one of my quarters:

Newest dime added this morning

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Just picked this up on a Heritage auction. Would have preferred a UltraCam / DCAM

but this is a nice coin none the less...

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Mike - Now that's what I call a nice Half Cent !!!

Love the "Classic Head" and that's one of the nicest I've seen.

Harvey,

I think you did extremely well on that purchase. Nice crusty original coins !!

Mike

Finding a nice XF 45 of this date was quite a wait...its going in my 2nd tier set: