It's a "Barber Bonanza!". Post those coins please.....

No, not the Barber. I'm talking about Charles E. Barber. The man, the myth, the legend!
Barber coinage - Wikipedia
Take a look and see if you have one of his designs maybe? Post a pic if you can or just add something about his coins that he designed that others may not know about.
Here is one that I, yours truly, found while metal detecting one year. I remember the morning like it was yesterday but can't remember what I ate yesterday.
I hereby present my 1892S Barber Quarter.

 

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From Whitman folder.

 

A two and a twenty centavos, Cuba, 1915.

 

I'm wondering if Barber's Cuba designs might hold the longevity record. The 2 centavos was used until 2010, his 5 centavos until 2015, and on the 20 centavos Numista still gives him credit for it until 2021, although the reverse is a copy of the 2 and 5 with "XX." That's over 100 years for two of these coins.

 

My most recent acquisition is this Charles Barber.


I wonder how many collectors know that Charles Barber did the obverse and Morgan did the reverse on this one.

 

My Charles Barber 1898-O 2 bits.

 

I’m not a big fan of Barber coins. I did buy a collection years ago that had a old green folder that was only missing a few of the key and semi-key dates. The entire collection was in this grade and this is one of the coins I had to buy to complete the folder, which was completed a year or two ago.

 

You have to admit though. It's a fantastic design. I was very excited when i found it, I'll tell you.

 

Well sir, I didn't know that! Thanks for the enlightenment.
This one isn't in very good condition, but it's the one I have a picture of, 1900-O Half Dollar

 

Funny that you would post the 1900-O half. I wrote an article on these for the BCCS journal. Seems that so many like @Collecting Nut aren't big fans, yet there are so many interesting tidbits just waiting to be discovered for that very reason. @justafarmer discovered after all these years that there was a second reverse hub type, introduced in 1901.


It was already known and published that there was a new obverse hub type introduced in 1901.


While the mix of the two obverse types was known to have only occurred in 1901, the newly discovered second reverse type was used sporadically until 1905 for both S and O mints.

Then I discovered that both the new obverse and reverse types were actually used in New Orleans late in December 1900 after 1901 dies had already been shipped there, because New Orleans had been ordered to produce so many half dollars and they were out of usable dies. I even tracked down the shipment of 4 die pairs on December 8, 1900. As a result, there are 4 hub type combinations for 1900-O half dollars.


Yours is the common I/I pair. I'm still lazily trying to get all four combos, so I currently have the I/II and II/II in low grades. The I/I should be easy, but the II/I is elusive.

I/II


II/II


Barber coins are boring.

 

My Metal Detected Barber Half Dollar (2024)