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1895 O Barber Half.....O/o.? need some help please.

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  • rld14rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭
    Looks like the right mint mark was punched over a quarter mint mark.

    I sure as heck see it. Ya know, FWIW, these coins haven't exactly been studied for such die varieities very much at all.
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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    Coin has circulated for quite awhile
    and as such has numerous abrasions.
    One of which is causing you to see a
    phantom under-mint mark. Sorry.

    There are numerous die varieties on
    Barber coins; no one has seriously studied
    them to any degree, to the best of my knowledge.

    Glenn Holsonbake recently picked up a very neat
    1892-P Half in PCGS 63 with a die break inside the
    arrows on the reverse. I termed that coin the :
    Bow and Arrow Variety . Glenn has it listed as:
    HAH-1.

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  • rld14rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭
    Now that I look at it closer... What looks like an underlying O seems to be too small to be a quarter punch. It's not a dime punch as those are bigger than quarter punches. The 95-O that I have is a VF20 but is a different die pair from your coin... I'd like to see it in hand to tell I suppose.
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