Post your Barber Images

Thanks..

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

As some of you know, I've been involved with Barbers
since the mid 1960's while in college. I still collect and
am now working on my 9th circulated set - half are raw
in a Dansco and the others are still in TPG's - that I have
every intention of cracking out. The grades are VG 10 thru
XF 40 - with the majority in VF 25. I think I'll stay with
the 25-30 grade from now on as it has a good look , still
has most details except for the wing tips, and are reasonable
enough not to break the bank.

I've always said that the "fun of collecting is in the hunt" and
I'll be assisting Glenn Holsonbake once again in Baltimore & I
hope that you all will have a chance to stop by and say hello.
We'll have a great selection of all denominations of Barbers.

At Pittsburgh, I had the pleasure of meeting LogPotato and his
beautiful friend, we called Mrs. LogPotato [ she had a laugh at that !! ]

 

I picked up some Barber Halves in old ANACS small cachets
the other day - nothing earth-shattering - but some nice VF's:











I'll have no problem cracking these out for the Dansco.

 

An $8.49 ebay piece.

 

She had a good time though.

I'll be cruising through at Baltimore. I don't know if I will be picking up many halves, but I have a few coins I am having Todd photograph. I'll be sure to drop in on you and Glenn to say hi.

 

Where do you get that this lovely coin was cleaned? It is mint state (of course) but I don't see a cleaning anywhere on it. Is it a raw coin or slabbed? No matter what, it is a lovely coin.

 

That is so cool about Buddy Ebson! I didn't know that he was a numismatist. I guess there are a lot of celebrities who partake of our hobby. In my opinion it is the widest practiced hobby in the world. And yes, that would be so cool if we were to get our hands on a 1894 S dime in any condition!

 

I posed this question ATS @ PCGS - so - I'll pose it here as well.

While at the ANA Pittsburgh, I bought a nice example of my favorite date
in the Barber Half series.


This evening, I bid on and won another seemingly as nice example of the same date and mint. Can you tell me why I did such a thing, afterall, I had just purchased the above coin.
Why did I buy the coin below ? [ Aside from the fact that I'm a compulsive Barber Half Collector ? ]

 

I say it's always good to have a spare or backup!

 

Nice try - but that's not the reason.

 

Because PCGS just bumped the price of XF40 grades of that date and M.M. from $975 to $1100... And yours closely resemble a coin of that very grade. Nice pick-ups.

-Brian

 

This would be my first guess. But I think I will go with they are Type 1 and Type 2 obverses.

 

Here's a newspaper article about the sale of Buddy Ebsen's collections, in 1987. He was quite a coin collector.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...evision-actor-buddy-ebsen-beverly-hillbillies

 

Yup, Ty 1 & Ty 2 obv hubs.

 

large S and a small S

 

Sorry, that's not it either.
Nor is it a Large S and Small S...

both good guesses.

 

Justin and Treashunt - correct !!

 

I'd say nice eye on the Type 2, but there was a sticker on the slab. I know you know the difference anyways. The Type 2 being a bit more rare. Nice pickup.

 

Thanks, Justin.

If that sticker wasn't on the coin, I might not have
looked twice at the coin as I just this past two weeks
bought the Ty 1 in Pittsburgh. { I had already squirreled
it away by the time you made it to my table !! } I "had"
every intention of cracking the coin out for the Dansco
but now thought better of it - and now I just added a decent
Fine 15 - raw - to the album. { Problem solved... spend more money !! }

Looking forward to seeing you and Stephanie in Baltimore.

 

LOL I didn't bring enough money to the show to buy an XF 01-S. That coin was safe from me! My girlfriend (not named Stephanie) will not be along with me this time. Sorry to disappoint. I will either be by myself or I will have a friend with me who collects just about anything.