Is there a book for identifying Barber half die marriages?

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 27, 2010 6:52AM

  I don't own them but have heard that Kevin Flynn's 3 volume series on Barber coinage addresses die varieties

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• rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭

  April 27, 2010 7:08AM

  I have the books by Kevin Flynn on Barber Dimes and Barber Halves. They don't identify die marriages, but they do get into specific die varieties. It's important to remember that there has been very little research done into die varieties on Barber coinage.
  
  What you'll find in the Flynn books are Doubled/Tripled (And, on one 92-P a quintupled die reverse) dies, Repunched dates and Mint Marks, and misplaced dates. To my knowledge, you could only really identify reverse dies on branch mint coins as the lettering was in the master hub unlike the bust series coins. And on 1909 and newer coins the date was also in the master hub, so I think that identifying 1909+ Philadelphia coins by die marriage would be nigh on impossible or at least VERY difficult, really it would be 1892-1908 Branch Mint coins that you could do this with, and unless I'm wrong, that would be about the extent of what you could identify by die marriage.
  
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