Here. (Slow-loading link.) I accessed the link to that from the Barber Quarters Collectors' Society. Looks like some useful info on this page on their site. I just bought one myself, for my Giveaway Gallery "free store". It's just a modest circulated example, but pretty nice for that, I thought. .
Pics please! The references posted by @lordmarcovan are the ones I know of. NGC and PCGS also have short blurbs for certain years/mints.
Once I finished the date and mintmark set of Walking Liberty Halves I thought about starting a Barber Half dansco. Perhaps I still will at some point.
I did, in VG to Fine. It was a lot of fun. I went for those coins with that perfect natural grey look, with as close to a full LIBERTY as possible. A Fine coin at VG money, when possible. A lot of price increases happen in that cusp between VG8 and F12, so a VG10 coin often represents a bargain. I'd say the same thing for the quarters, only the Barber quarters have more tough key dates than the halves do.
Yeah, I found the halves and dimes a lot more interesting, just because of the wide range of prices with nothing in the stratosphere for low grades (discounting of course the 1894-S dime). With quarters, it's a bunch of more or less common dates, a couple of tougher ones, and then you have to buy the equivalent of three 1916-D dimes -- one at damaged/AG price, one at low circulated price, and one at MS price. And I still haven't talked myself into buying an actual 1916-D dime.
THANK YOU for that link! I'd bookmarked it on the DLRC site, but then they pulled it. I think I actually bought a second-hand paper copy of the quarter reference, but as my last post hinted, I'd like to have the dime and half references on hand.
You can get the dimes, quarters and halves info all together in the Bowers' Guide Book of Barber Silver Coins. Some of it is not as thorough as the DL books though - there are no variety listings in the Bowers book. The DL dime and half books are also online, linkable through BCCS. Good choice, many were saved so a nice example is fairly cheap. Oddly there were two reverse types. Barber quickly redid the hub when it was reported that the coins didn't stack properly. You'd think with a brand new design they would have coined a test run and checked that.
Top is AU55, bottom AU58. I think the bottom one got AU because someone stared at it too hard or something. I paid slightly below Numismedia price guide a few years ago. Had to have one of each.
I will be looking for a type 2. Hopefully with a Variety attached to the label. I have been looking thru auctions trying to find a die match to mine. There are some pretty distinct die cracks thru the date. I am a little high yet from the Broncos turn around victory today! What a game!
Post a pic. I love looking for matching dies. I think you meant that you will be looking for a type 1. Literature says the survivors are about evenly split but I found type 1 harder to find, at least for what I wanted to spend. I'm not sure if I've ever noticed the types attributed on a slab, although HA descriptions sometimes mention it.
Yes, type 1. I just took a few shots I will crop them if they aren't good enough, I am gonna have to change the lights. The eye appeal of the coin was what sold it, not necessarily the details.
Better photos the second time around, still can't see the die crack at the date, it's a good presentation of the coin in hand. 2nd Photos
