Barber Quarters

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Mint Act of 1890 allowed the Treasury Department to change coin designs every 25...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Barber Quarter, along with the Barber Dime and Barber Half Dollar, debuted in 1892...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The character of our nation's Proof coinage did not perceivably change when the United States...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Philadelphia Mint struck 4,440,000 Barber Quarters in 1895 - a tiny sum by today's...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Generations of Americans living through the second half of the 19th century had known only...

The Sunday, March 3, 2024 Auction from David Lawrence Rare Coins (DLRC) is live online and features over 525 lots; this includes more than...

By Chris Bulfinch - Numismatist, Stack's Bowers ...... For decades, American consumers were handling a significant numismatic rarity almost certainly without realizing it. Many 1896-S...

GreatCollections is offering collectors the opportunity to bid on what is perhaps currently one of the rarest non-gold coins struck by the United States...

A basic set of Barber coins can be easy to assemble, but there are ways to make it more of a challenge   By Jeff Garrett...

GreatCollections is currently offering interested numismatists a rare opportunity to acquire one of the finest certified examples of the 1913-S Barber Quarter Dollar. This...

By Christopher Maisano - Numismatist, Stack's Bower Galleries ...... Rainbow Proof Barber Quarter Proof Barber quarters are known for low mintages, as well as their beauty...

By Blanchard and Company, Inc ...... After 55 years, the Seated Liberty half dollar design had become somewhat of a dinosaur. A classic, yes. Exciting,...

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC) ...... In the dark corners of my mind I hadn't anticipated writing this article as this is...

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC) ......   My third installment of this series features what would be another of a very rare variety,...

By Bullion Shark LLC ...... By the late 1880s, the public had grown tired of Christian Gobrecht's Seated Liberty designs that had appeared on silver...