Anyone Collect Barber Quarters?

The Barber design was not well-regarded when it was new. Collectors
have generally held both its preceding design (Seated Liberty) and
succeeding design (Standing Liberty) in higher regard.

This means less saving of Barber quarters in higher grades when they were new.

And then, the Great Depression hit and a lot of the Barber quarters
that were saved were returned to (heavy) circulation. A lot of
saved Standing Liberty quarters also were returned to circulation at
that time, but S.L.'s were more likely to be pulled back out of
circulation by collectors after the Depression ended (by which time,
it had been replaced with the Washington quarter).

Many Barber coins stayed in circulation until the early 1960's, when
their bullion value exceeded their face value. Even today, I've seen
Barber-only 'junk silver' bags for sale at coin shows.

It took me a while to find the three 1906-D Barbers (10¢-25¢-50¢) in VF-XF grade....

I've recently started seriously collecting Barber quarters. When I was 12, my grandmother bought me a 1901-S Quarter at a coin show. I took a long hiatus from coin collecting and getting the 1901-S authenticated by PCGS recently reignited my interest in coins. So I thought I would try to collect the series. The 1901-S that I have is only in FA-02 condition, but I'm trying to collect most of the others in VF or better. I probably will have to settle for lower grades for the 1896-S and 1913-S. Collecting this series requires some patience because most coin dealers don't stock a lot of them. I expect to be working on this set for the next few years.

I recently started a registry set with PCGS, but I'm not sure if I will pursue it or not.

I collect the barber series more heavily than any other and have also realized that nice F-EF coins have been going for more than before, probably because of greater interest in coin collecting as a whole in response to rising metal prices.

In fact, one might say I'm addicted to collecting barbers : D

I could go around Denver and buy problem-free G-4 Barbers all day,
but it's the VF/XF and above that will have you searching a while...

Mike Hayes wrote:




It's pretty easy.

When you hit "Reply to Topic", the fill-in screen pops up, (You have figured this one out if you have posted, so far, so good!).

You'll notice a green camera figure near the bottom left of the posting box, just above the two check boxes ("Check here to include your profile signature" is the top one...).

Click on that green camera and it opens a window to browse your computer for pictures.
Note: the pics can not be much bigger than 100MB or the uploader will reject your picture. I use Irfanview (free from Irfanview.com) to resize the pictures. Also if you want to post a second picture and click on "post another picture", the original post screen will come back up and you will need to minimize that screen to get to the picture upload box again. (Just a small picture uploader nuance...) And then you're off and running!

Good Luck! Post LOTS of pictures!

The above coin is great! and its funny how it did take a while before a pic was posted...I dont have any as of yet myself, will there be more pics?

Ok - that was easy - Photobucket it is then - this is gonna be fun !





One of my more recent upgrades...I just sold the AU 55 at FUN.

I thought I would post a couple of my PCGS slabbed Barber quarters. Maybe we can get all of the grades posted.