Let's see those Barber Half Albums!!!
USMC_6115
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Who's got one? I completed this some years ago with the help of @DrPete (where did he go?). My goal was VG with full rims and sort of a balanced look throughout with decent eye appeal. There's still a few I want to change out, but mostly I love the album. Any others out there?
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I built a complete set of VF-EF coins in the two part Library of Coins albums years and years ago. My guess is that it took me nearly a decade to fill it with original coins and that I sold it perhaps two decades ago. If I recall correctly, the 1893-S and 1907-S were the only two that I could not find original and VF-EF so they were both F15.
Before I sold the set Coins Magazine featured it in an article and made a poster of the coins. I know I have that somewhere, too, but only as a paper copy and not digitized.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Why couldn't you locate a 1907-S in VF or XF?
1907-S in VF/XF with original skin is not as easy to find as you may think.
Here’s mine, still has lots of holes to fill. I’m looking for nice dirty looking ones and pick them up here and there one at a time.
Mr_Spud
Decades of collecting this series have taught me that the 1907-S in VF-EF with original surfaces might be the most underrated and impossible to find coin in the series. I currently own a pair of VF examples, which was more than I could find during the decade I was searching out coins for my former set.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
No pics, I dispersed my Barber halves while unemployed for a few months during the Great Recession in 2009. I continued buy and sell them for years after, focusing on better dates in VF-AU, with help and insight from Mike Hayes and the Barber thread guys.
Regarding full sets, I was friends with a retired teacher turned part time dealer from central Ohio back in the 1980’s/90’s. He once shared a story with me about his brother, who loved Barber halves and had been collecting them since the 50’s. He had managed to assemble three roll sets , 60 of every date and mm in series. I’m sure many were low grade, coming from bank bag and roll hunting etc, but still an impressive feat nonetheless. I haven’t seen the fellow in ages, and it’s likely been dispersed by now.
@USMC_6115 That album is just sooooo nice! I am a huge Barber fan, always have been, and I just love to see a complete album of them.....So tough to assemble like that! Nice job!
I figured it was just laziness on the part of the collector.
Every time I have looked at the store they dont have the Dansco barber album, so this is my album set sitting here in tubes right now....
That’s similar to how I keep my toned set of 1946-1964 Roosevelt dimes.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
I love old Barber albums, and the coins themselves, but I am generally loathe to crack out any from the PCGS or NGC (or in one case an old ANACS soap bar) so I just have them alongside each other!
I'm still working on this set, 11 to go (I have an 1892-O coming soon).
So you were a Tiltrotor Mechanic?