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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26498854, member: 104064&quot;]I did submit a handful of Barber dime hub type transition varieties to Cherrypickers. Unfortunately after a lot of time and effort they decided not to include them in the latest edition and in fact my understanding is that they gutted that whole section of the previous listings (something like two dozen removed). Since discovering that there was a third reverse hub type back in 2019 I think, my focus has been on documenting and collecting these transition varieties. I&#039;ve not had much interest in all the RPMs and RPDs, although one of my transition variety discoveries (1901-O Obverse 1) also has an undocumented RPD. None of the publications or websites have complete information on these, and in some cases what they say is wrong, although they can largely be forgiven for it because nobody really looked into it. </p><p><br /></p><p>David Lawrence did a decent job with the hub type stuff but from my recollection was basically repeating what John McCloskey discovered and published in a 1980 column in Coin World. McCloskey discovered that there were two obverse and two reverse design types, calling them A and B, and that his Type B&#039;s were introduced in 1901. He recognized that his Type B reverse was used as late as 1905 (S-mint) and that the pattern was unusual - 1901-S Reverse Type A, 1902-S Type B, 1903-S Type A again, Type B on 1904-S and 1905-S. He also recognized the possibility that others would be discovered. And then it sat for 37 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>John Reynolds published an article in the BCCS journal Fall 2017 issue where he fleshed out all of the reverse transition varieties based on the then-known two types, and their relative populations. 1901 had both types at all three mints, then SF had both types from 1902 through 1905. However, nobody knew that there was a third reverse type until I published a BCCS article on that in Spring 2019. I was dumbfounded that nobody had notice that the reverse had also changed in 1900. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a quick look at the changes in 1900 (1892-1899 on left) and then I&#039;ll continue in the next post. The leaf veins and corn all changed. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1689217[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1689218[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1689220[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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