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Barber Quarter made into pin

MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭✭
Any comments or thoughts or info? It looks like someone modified a relatively nice 1904 Barber Quarter into a pin or something.
(edit to add) Notice the date stamped on the back Aug. 11.03. Yet it is an 04 quarter.

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image Respectfully, Mark

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    It's a pushout. Those were all the rage in the early 1900s. I have a bunch of them from the LA Purchase Expo in St Louis in 1904.
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've seen these before on Morgan Dollars, but I think this is the first one I've seen on a Barber Quarter ...

    IIRC they were pushed into a counter die top make as a pin or brouche (sp?)

    is it yours?


    very kewl none the less ... thanks for sharing image

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  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes it is mine. Got it with a bunch off odds & ends from my father in law.
    image Respectfully, Mark
  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've seen these before on Morgan Dollars, but I think this is the first one I've seen on a Barber Quarter ... >>



    Somebody posted recently that he had these in all 3 Barber denominations and that the dime is very rare. There was another post, perhaps by the same person, showing the patent for how these were made.
  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭✭
    For the morning crowd.
    image Respectfully, Mark
  • I found one of those metal detecting but they punched out the reverse, probably why it was buriedimage edit to add, that is a very nice pushout I really like the fact they put the date on it (for whatever reason)image

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