Tag: Charles Barber
Stella Four-Dollar Goloid Coin, 1879-1880 | CoinWeek
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Four-Dollar Stella was a short series of experimental goloid pattern coins struck at the...
1912-S Liberty Head Nickel : A Collector’s Guide
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
With only 238,000 pieces struck, the 1912-S Liberty Head Nickel has the lowest circulation mintage...
1885 Liberty Head Nickel : A Collector’s Guide
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Philadelphia Mint struck over 1.472 million 1885 Liberty Head Nickels. Because of the influx of nickels being returned to the...
Rare Chance to Own Top Pop 1883 Hawaii Silver Dollar at GreatCollections
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GreatCollections is offering collectors the rare opportunity to own one of the finest 1883 Hawaiian-issue silver dollars. Graded MS68 by PCGS and...
Barber Half Dollar, 1892-1915 | CoinWeek
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Mint Act of 1890 allowed for the changing of coin designs every 25 years,...
1903 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Jefferson Gold Dollar : A Collector’s Guide
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
When the United States formally took possession of the Louisiana Territory on December 20, 1803--effectively doubling the size of the country--Napoleon...
Barber Quarter, 1892-1916 | CoinWeek
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Mint Act of 1890 allowed the Treasury Department to change coin designs every 25...
1892 Barber Quarter Proof : A Collector’s Guide
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Barber Quarter, along with the Barber Dime and Barber Half Dollar, debuted in 1892...
1895 Barber Quarter Proof : A Collector’s Guide
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...
1898 Barber Half Dollar Proof : A Collector’s Guide
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
In 1898, as was by then common practice for the United States Mint, Proof coins...
1895 Barber Quarter : A Collector’s Guide
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...
Barber Dime, 1892-1916 | CoinWeek
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Mint Finally Updates Its Subsidiary Silver Coinage
The Mint Act of 1890 allowed for the...
1892 Barber Quarter : A Collector’s Guide
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
Generations of Americans living through the second half of the 19th century had known only...
1893 Isabella Quarter : A Collector’s Guide
The Isabella quarter is a commemorative coin that was sold during the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The obverse of the coin features...
Liberty Head Nickel, With Cents (1883-1912) | CoinWeek
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Liberty Head Nickel Does Not Go According to Plan
On February 1, 1883, after two...
1883 Liberty Head Nickel, Without Cents : A Collector’s Guide
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....
The Liberty Head Nickel--or "V" Nickel, as it's more commonly known--was the second design style...
Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Silver Medal Available Oct. 2
The United States Mint Presidential Silver Medal featuring 18th president Ulysses S. Grant (in office 1869-77) will be available at noon Eastern on October...
Why Collect Commemoratives? A Better Question Might Be “Why Not?”
Collecting Commemoratives By Ron Drzewucki
If you collect modern U. S. coins, then you collect commemoratives.
Today, practically every coin the United States Mint produces commemorates...
The Origin of the First U.S. Commemorative Coins
By Victor Bozarth for PCGS ......
While some recognize the 1848 CAL Quarter Eagle struck from California gold as the first United States commemorative coin,...
No-Date Buffalo Nickels: How to Find Their Value
By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ......
It's quite common to find Buffalo nickels that are dateless—missing the four digits that indicate the year the coin...
GreatCollections Offering One of Finest Certified 1913-S Barber Quarters
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...
Indian Head $10 Gold Coins: The Other Saint-Gaudens Masterpiece
By Bullion Shark LLC ......
Though he is most widely known for his masterpiece of numismatic art, the $20 gold double eagle issued from 1907...
Coin Stories: Where Charles Barber Found Inspiration for a New Series of Silver Coins
By Blanchard and Company, Inc ......
After 55 years, the Seated Liberty half dollar design had become somewhat of a dinosaur. A classic, yes. Exciting,...
Foreign Coins Struck by the United States Mint in the 19th Century
By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....
The purpose of the United States Mint is to make money. And no, I don't just mean striking coins...
1912-D Liberty Nickel : A Collector’s Guide
The 1912-D Liberty Head nickel was struck during the only year when any of the coins in the series were struck at branch mints....
Isabella: The Mother of All U.S. Commemorative Quarters
By Dan Duncan – Retired, Pinnacle Rarities ......
The original Washington quarter was intended as just a one-year commemorative. Yet John Flanagan’s obverse design has...
Q. David Bowers: Revisiting Charles E. Barber
By Q. David Bowers - Co-Founder, Stack's Bowers .....
Charles Edward Barber became the sixth engraver at the Philadelphia Mint in 1880, following the death...
Barber Silver Coinage Values and Key Dates: Bullion Shark
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...
Jeff Garrett: The Superstar $4 Stella, 1879-1880
These numismatic supernovas shine bright in the greatest collections
By Jeff Garrett for Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) ......
Very few United States coins inspire the awe...
PCGS MS67+ 1915-S Panama-Pacific Commemorative Half Dollar at GreatCollections.com
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In a few days, bidding ends on Sunday, December 8 on GreatCollections.com for this 1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition Commemorative half dollar, graded MS-67+...