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More beautiful Barber quarters ...

I just looooove these new additions to my hoard of Barber quarters. The awesomely colorful 1895 PCGS MS66 did not make it into my Primary Set of MS Barber quarters (yes, my other 1895 is even better !!), but you can see it in the context of my P-mint date set. Check out both sets - there are about (80) or (90) nice True View images between the two sets.

Incidentally, the P-mint date set is a neat story, because PCGS lists Eliasberg's collection as the #1 all-time finest collection of circulation strike Barber quarters. Only one problem - Eliasberg did not own any circulation strikes for all the P-mint issues 1892 through 1915, because he collected the proofs instead. In those days, proofs were considered to be the same issue as business strikes, only "better." The only P-mint MS coin he owned was the 1916, as that was the only year in which proofs were not struck. So it is a bit questionable to call his set the #1 All-Time Finest Set, when he was missing 24 of the required coins !!! To poke fun at this, I am displaying all my P-mints in a date set - all the coins Eliasberg was missing. And for the 1916-P, I just happen to have the Eliasberg specimen to include in this date set ...

Anyway here are some cool BQ's: the awesome 1895 PCGS MS66 now featured in my sig line, and the Eliasberg 1916 PCGS MS66, 1893-O PCGS MS66, and a nice 1898 PCGS MS66:

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Enjoy !!

Best,
Sunnywood

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