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…
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. …