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Originally Posted by bqcoins  Walter Breen had this to say of the barber dime series by Charles Barber: “…Barber must have been feeling exceptionally lazy [when designing the coin]… |
To be honest I agree with Breen's assesment... the androngenous man or woman in the smurf hat with the scrawny eagle on the back doesn't strike me as very inspiring, and the fact that he just reused the exact design on the quarter and half does strike me as pretty lazy. I could almost forgive the design as just old-fashioned... but the Morgan dollar is a beautiful design that came out earlier than this, so can't use that excuse. Feed that eagle something!
I'm also bigger on collecting by type rather than series most of the time. Just get one each of the best example of each type you can reasonably afford I say... what's the fun of getting several of the same coin where the only difference is the date printed on it?
To each their own I suppose. I got my one Barber dime and that'll do it for me.
