It's " Barber Sunday!" Post yours also....

Barber design used 1915-1971.

 

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I've never understood this "there was no year zero" argument because it makes no sense. Of course there was a year 0. You can't have a year 1 without a year 0. 0-1 was the first year of our calendar, 1-2 was the second year, 99-100 was the hundredth year. So the new century started in 1900. I will die on this hill.

 

i'm attempting a 7070-with-gold set with only prooflike coins. I'm about 50% complete. The remaining are either extremely rare, extremely expensive, or don't exist.

 

No, there was no year 0. The system was devised in the year 525 by Dionysius Exiguus, who used the birth of Jesus Christ as the turning point in history. AD stands for Anno Domini, Latin for "In the Year of the Lord." AD 1 was "In the First Year of the Lord," that is, the year he supposed Jesus was born (most historians believe he got the year wrong). The previous year was not year 0 but 1 BC, that is, the first year Before Christ. So there was never a year 0. (I'm a retired history teacher.) History does not have to make sense. It just is what it is. Also, perhaps it makes better sense if you realize he did this in AD 525 and the use of a zero did not reach Europe until the 10th century.

 

Well, I believe in numbers, not all that other stuff. Basing designation of a new century (or millennium) on number of years since Jesus was born, but he was really born on year 1, is kind of silly since no one knows when he was born anyway. You're just changing 1900 into 1901 because zero hadn't been adopted as a concept. When the odometer on your car rolls over to 100, are you now in your second hundred miles or do you have to wait until 101 because "there was no mile 0"? Math is math. A discussion that should be taken to the General forum.

Meanwhile, here's a Barber from the 20th century.

 

I don't know what to say. On an episode of Young Sheldon I found out Zero may not even exist. i have avoided math ever since. James

 

This is my most recent type coin purchase. It’s the lowest grade of my three Barbers but the slightly better date and the toning appealed to me.

 

Since it's Sunday again, I'll post the only relatively decent Barbers I have.

 

Some of our recent acquisitions ... Enjoy!