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Barber coin no date

Hush2025Hush2025 Posts: 15 ✭
edited September 4, 2025 5:20AM in Q & A Forum





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    coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 12,638 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Does not look real.

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    hummingbird_coinshummingbird_coins Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Damaged and plated. Note how the denomination was carved out along with the date. It also looks like someone tried to reduce the size and subsequently had to recreate the reeded edge. Your coin appears to be a contemporary "racketeer" coin that someone would have tried to pass off as gold. Interesting, but little to no premium.

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,250 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Damaged junk of some sort.

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    seatedlib3991seatedlib3991 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it has suffered heavy corrosion. maybe put in a vat of acid. There is the faint remnants of the number "1" but little else. james

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    MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 40,283 ✭✭✭✭✭

    what does it weigh?

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    braddickbraddick Posts: 25,238 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hummingbird_coins said:
    Damaged and plated. Note how the denomination was carved out along with the date. It also looks like someone tried to reduce the size and subsequently had to recreate the reeded edge. Your coin appears to be a contemporary "racketeer" coin that someone would have tried to pass off as gold. Interesting, but little to no premium.

    This is most likely IMO. And, if it can be documented with others existing would carry a premium to the right collector. (Me, for example.)

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    pcgsregistrycollectorpcgsregistrycollector Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fake coin.

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    Alpha2814Alpha2814 Posts: 425 ✭✭✭✭

    I wonder what the chocolate tastes like.

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,812 ✭✭✭✭✭

    yes, its a no date barber of some type

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    MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 40,283 ✭✭✭✭✭

    dime and quarter eagle are close in diameter and thickness

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    jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 43,336 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    dime and quarter eagle are close in diameter and thickness

    Not a dime

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    hummingbird_coinshummingbird_coins Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MsMorrisine said:
    dime and quarter eagle are close in diameter and thickness

    The reverse narrows it down to either a quarter or half dollar, and it shouldn't be a half dollar since it's closer to one finger width than two.

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    MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 40,283 ✭✭✭✭✭

    then what gold coin would it try to mimic?

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    hummingbird_coinshummingbird_coins Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Quarter: 24.26 mm
    $5 gold piece: 21.6 mm
    A bit of a stretch, but if the target of this racket couldn't identify the design as that of a quarter, they probably wouldn't question anything else.

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    rec78rec78 Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Token or replica of some kind. Not a real coin. Worth nothing.

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    Coins3675Coins3675 Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭✭

    I have no clue what that is! My first reaction was a chocolate coin.

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