Barber Quarters Varieties

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. …

COINS of the CIVIL WAR Yet another one of the Allentown/Bethlehem Coin Club’s young numismatists expressed an interest in the coinage of the Civil War.  So let’s start there: The American Civil War took place from April 12, 1861, to April 9, 1865. It began when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina,…