Barber Quarters Varieties
- 1892 Doubled Die Obverse / TO TDR
- 1892-0 Doubled Die Obverse
- 1907-D Doubled Die Obverse
- 1914-D Doubled Die Obverse
- 1916-D D/D Large/Small D Standing Liberty Quarters
- 1918 Overdate 1918/7
TRANSITIONAL LINCOLN CENTS In numismatics, Transitional refers to highly collectible coins struck when the U.S. Mint altered a coin’s metal composition or design. These errors occur when leftover planchets from an older year – or unintended die designs – are mistakenly fed into the coining press alongside new issue. In this article, we will be…
The United States trade dollar was a dollar coin minted by the United States Mint to compete with other large silver trade coins that were already popular in East Asia. The idea first came about in the 1860s, when the price of silver began to decline due to increased mining efforts in the western United…
I was recently asked to review a couple hundred ‘error’ coins. Though many were marked as Double Die, not one coin was a true Doubled Die. These coins were all the result of strike doubling. Strike doubling is one of the many terms (a.k.a. shelf, shift, or machine doubling) used to describe a doubling effect…
MINT ERRORS When we speak of mint errors, some people will think of doubled dies (DDO’s & DDR’s), re-punched mint marks (RPM’s), and over mint marks (OMM’s). Doubled Dies are errors related to die creation whereas RPM’s and OMM’s are human errors cause by the manual process adding a mint mark to an existing die. …