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I love Barber designed coinage

 

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I do too. I feel like it's an under appreciated design and most skip from seated to slq or seated to mercs. Seated to walkers.. barbers were serious work horses and I don't see many nice ones.

 

I'm actually working backwards from that logic lol. I've got more barber designed coins than any other (95% of them being Liberty Nickels) but I do have a barber quarter and dime. I don't have any seated but I do have walkers and one merc.

 

Nothing at all wrong with buying duplicates. And never forget, there are no coins exactly alike, no matter what the grade on the plastic says.

 

I think every purchase I've made in the last 5-6 years has been a Barber. They've been undiscovered territory for the reasons you stated. There's an article in the current BCCS journal about why it's so difficult to find nice circulated ones.

 

I'll have to check that out

 

I have a small suite of Colonial and Post-Colonial coins. I just added this last night.

VF-35 in an old green PCGS holder.

 

Beautiful peice of history. I dont yet own anything from the 1700s. I do however know what I want and they don't come cheap.

 

Got any STATE COPPERS? CT, VT, NJ perhaps?

 

I have a Connecticut copper. My LCS has the other two but I haven't bit as they're nice and expensive. Maybe a long term lay-a-way of more than a few months,

 

Wow. This is the first time I've even seen one of those.

 

I have a 1926 Lincoln wheat penny and it looks ro have been stuck by another coin when it was being made.

 

My setup is a System-3 built by Ray Parkhurst from macrocoins.com. It utilizes a DSLR- Canon Rebel T6 with a Rodenstock Rodagon D 75 mm duplicating lens. I use 3 Jansjo lamps. Lighting is everything! I really like how compactness of the system.

 

What a beautiful and special coin. Thank you for sharing.

 

+1. That is an amazing coin to have! So glad for you! Thanks for posting.