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You're going to make me haul out all those slick Barber halves I've got squirreled away in rolls, aren't you? (It looks like some if not most of these pickups should be visible even in extreme wear states.)

I think I've only got a few tubes, but since the slick ones fit 25 or 26 to a tube...

 

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For the Barber Half PUP posting - I noticed - I doubled posted one of the pup images. But intended to post the following pup image. Also I am including a distribution of the occurrence of OBV I and OBV II of the coins examined for the transition period.

 

There were obverse design changes in 1914 and another in 1915 on the Barber Half which are not cataloged on the BCCS website. The change can be seen on the "W" in "WE".

 

ANACS AU55 1911 dime

 

Time for another article!

I haven't looked at enough coins to be definitive, but there appears to be a similar progression with the U, which through 1914 is a "full split serif", and then in 1915 becomes a "partial split serif", like the 1914 W. Perhaps we discussed this previously over email.

 

Yes we did exchange emails on this subject - I don't recall whether or not we discussed the "U" in "TRUST". Probably did. I do remember you informing me that the BCCS JOURNAL published an article concerning the "W" back in 2005 (I think it was). The name of the author you gave escapes me.

 

1908-D PCGS AU50

 

1906 PCGS AU55 PCGS

 

Yes, we discussed this back in Jan-Feb, fortunately I saved the email thread. Steve Hustad article from 2005 https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/515317 page 12 describes "very minor obverse hub changes have been noted by others for the years 1908 - 1911, and 1912 - 1915, concerning the touching, or not touching of the tops of the “WE” in “IN GOD WE TRUST”."

I always forget there was also a minor obverse hub change in 1896. No 1895/1896 overlap had been found as of that article, so an excuse for someone to look at a few hundred coin images again... I looked at 120 1896-S in Feb and they were all the second obverse.

 

I took a quick inventory of the halves I had in the 1901-05 date range above.

1 1901-S REV 1
7 1902-S REV 1
1 1903 REV 2
1 1903-O REV 2
1 1903-S REV 1
1 1904-O REV 2
1 1904-S REV 1
1 1905-O REV 2

I was hoping to have a Rev 2 of the 02-S with as many as I had but no luck.

 

I looked at 120 1902-S on Heritage back in Feb and found 0 Rev2. Die shipment and/or monthly coinage records might allow speculation as to what was going on in SF.

 

1901 is an interesting year for Barbers. Your 1901-O is Reverse 3, with the thick ribbon. All three mints produced both Rev2 and Rev3 (I think Rev3 was implemented around mid-May 1901). A census I did a couple years ago showed 1901-O was evenly split between Rev2/Rev3, 1901-P was 20% Rev2 and 80% Rev3, and 1901-S was 87% Rev2 and 13% Rev3. SF only made dimes in March and September, so only the small September mintage of 73,692 used Rev3. So a key date has a scarce variety!

Here's my 1901-S Rev3.

 

I don't ordinarily have much interest in varieties, but this is fun.

 

Sorry about the dog hair on the obverse. I was going to pry the capsule apart to remove and retake the picture. But then I couldn't get the capsule apart with just my fingernail and then realized how good of focus the picture is (including the hair itself) and thought what the heck!

 

Finally, two new TrueViews of my Barber halves! That makes three total.

1892-S VF35, raw off eBay

1900-O VF25, raw off a backwater category on eBay from a British seller.

 

And here's the third TPG slabbed Barber half.

1903-O EF45 - a barnacle that's beautiful in hand. I really like this coin.