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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26117733, member: 104064&quot;]More of an online &quot;miracle.&quot; Six+ years ago someone posted this 1895-O 10c (key date) to another forum asking if it was fake (it is). Someone pointed out that the obverse was the wrong type - the obverse changed to the one on the fake in 1901, so for it to be dated 1895 was impossible. But by then I was already examining the reverse instead. I knew nothing about Barber dimes or the documented hub changes. All the publications said that the reverse also changed in 1901. But I was focused on the left-most leaf vein and not the 1901 addition of the &quot;thick ribbon.&quot; That leaf vein changed in 1900, not 1901. I was perplexed. The reverse actually changed in 1900? I found BCCS and started emailing the folks there. Turns out that yes, the reverse hub changed first in 1900 but without the extra ribbon fold, and then changed again midway through 1901. I couldn&#039;t believe no one had ever noticed this in the 40 years since John McCloskey published the first documentation of the dime hub changes. I had discovered something new!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1666196[/ATTACH] </p><p>Since then I&#039;ve published six articles in the BCCS journal on this and other new transition varieties, including Barber quarters and half dollars. I never in my wildest dreams that I would end up being a published numismatist or that I would start collecting Barber dimes. You never know![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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