Type Set Upgrades! Barber Quarter and Type 1 Buffalo!

airplanenut

At NYINC yesterday, I got first dibs to look through a box of type stuff that Andy Lustig (MrEureka) had just purchased. From it, I chose these two to upgrade my type set. The quarter upgrades a cruddy G-4, and the buffalo upgrades a slightly rim-damaged VG/F.

I grade the baber a nice XF with a small amount of lustre remaining on the reverse, and the buffalo is a nice AU-58 (the two rubs are very small, and it took Andy to point them out to me... this is a true slider that would probably grade low MS if put in plastic). The barber is nice and grey--just how circulated silver should look. The buffalo is clean and lustrous

Oh, and it was fun to take some pictures of raw coins... they're so much nicer than plasticized ones







Hope you enjoy!

Jeremy

MrKelso

wam98

Jeremy, I really like the Barber. Both will look good in a Type Set.

Are you shooting for first year of issue also?

airplanenut

<< <i>Jeremy, I really like the Barber. Both will look good in a Type Set.

Are you shooting for first year of issue also? >>

I'm not shooting for first year of issue... if there had been another barber like the 92-O but not as good a date for less money, I would have taken that one... this Baber, though, couldn't be passed up. The 1913, well... there's a slot where only one fits I think my T2 is a 1937.

Jeremy

stev32k

I agree both will look good in a type set. I really like the images - those are good ones.

Baley

Well Done

Upgrading a coin in a type set is almost as fun as filling that last hole.

Two upgrades is twice as nice!

Casey

Nice quarter!

OnlyBuffalos

Great looking quarter and nickel. The barber coins are really difficut to find with that level of eye-appeal.

LanLord

Way cool, I love that quarter.

airplanenut

<< <i>Great looking quarter and nickel. The barber coins are really difficut to find with that level of eye-appeal. >>

And it matches my 1905-S AU dime (albeit, the dime only cost me $16.50 after tax many years ago... what a rip )

Now to find the right half...

coinkat

great looking coins

coinkat

I am trying to add afew items to my type set too and these are nice grades...congrats.

coinkat

BTW, how was the show? Any decent British coins there?

airplanenut

<< <i>BTW, how was the show? Any decent British coins there? >>

Tons of British stuff... it really is a world coin show, and I didn't go with the intention of really buying much (last year, the only thing I got was also from a box of Type that Andy had just gotten ). There is also lots of British gold, from medieval to the 1950s, in the ANR Eliasberg sale... there is a lot of neat stuff there.

Jeremy