Great stuff, @KBBPLL, are you a member of the BCCS? I know a couple of members collect these as well.
Yes @Log Potato I joined a few years ago, wrote an article on the third 1900 quarter obverse last year. Lots of fun stuff in the early 1900s Barbers.
and the best part is I working on 3 more right now for my 19th century type set.. Not a coin set I mind doubling up on
I've had this coin since 2005 when I "dug" it from Mother Earth!(Metal Detecting). I just recently realized that there are actually 2 different types of the 1892s Barber Quarter as shown below(I have the second type):
Me, too! I'm actually a BCCS charter member (#75), although my collection of Barbers pales in comparison to the ones posted in this thread. Nice to see some of us "ugly" coin enthusiasts hang out here.
I have a soft spot for "ugly" coins... they just seem to show more history then the pretty shiny ones
Gosh, that took me a minute to "get it." I must be getting old. It's nice to know that anybody reads and remembers. There's so much cool stuff in the BCCS journal but with only around 300 in the audience you never know if anybody even sees it. Being the "ugly" backwater of US collecting means there's still stuff to discover. Even an idiot like me can! I still can't believe no one noticed that the dime reverse changed in 1900 - I mean, come on! It was almost 120 years until I published about that in 2019. And our own @justafarmer recently discovered a new hub for the half dollar reverse in 1901. Anyway, to continue the theme, here's a crappy image of the 1892-1899 10c reverse versus an "early release" of the 1900 reverse. (The vein in the large lower left leaf is the obvious thing but there's more)
I have never been much of a variety guy. I do read the articles and find them fascinating but never been a "searcher" for them. And it seems, most varieties do tend to be on the dime and quarter side in the Barber series. Is there a link to the half hub post or article? I must have missed it. The date seems relevant, 1901 on halves had some obverse changes as well.
Unfortunately the journal archives are hosted by NNP and only go through 2015. The new half dollar reverse article was in the Winter 2021 issue (Vol 32 #4). Yes, 1900-1901 saw minor changes to nickel, dime, quarter and half. I don't go nuts over RPD and RPM varieties, but I admit to being addicted to the hub transitions, particularly years they don't below in (the half dollars, like the dimes, go all the way into 1905 with examples of the "old" dies).
The article was actually a collaborative effort between myself and several members of BCCS. @KBBPLL was a major contributor. I was contacted by and granted permission through BCCS for the article to be published by Coinworld. I am not a subscriber so don't know if it actually made it to print. We called the different reverse designs Wide "BUS" and Narrow "BUS". Sorta following the convention of Wide "AM" and Narrow "AM" for the Lincoln Cent. The transition extended through several years (1901-1905). Following are images of some of the pick-ups. Probably the easiest PU visually is looking at the tip of the eagle's beak and where it points relative to the "S" in "PLURIBUS" on the banner.
I mapped out both designs using a CAD System and overlaid the maps on top of each other. Perhaps this will help you in identifying and visualizing the actual design differences of each reverse.
Don't be so humble! People thought there might be a half dollar reverse hub change for many years. You're the one who actually discovered it. And it's very interesting how Rev1 bounces around both O and S mints until 1905. As I mentioned privately, I think the wide/narrow BUS and reshaping of the S also happened on the quarter reverse, but the wing tips PUP is much more obvious for the quarters. I need to get a Barber half dollar one of these days! Collecting all the transition varieties 1901-1905 would be a fun but expensive project.
Kinda like the transition for the Barber Quarter in 1900. Where everyone one looked at the cartilage in the ear for the design change. While the most obvious design change the "W" in "WE" went unnoticed for 120 years.