1914 Barber Dime - the eBay blurry pics game

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1914 Barber Dime - the eBay blurry pics game

#1 Unread post by Matthudson »

Would you bid on this coin?

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I was the only one. And I won it for total including tax and shipping = $7.47 (I know the seller's coins.)

For those of you following my recent exploits, I know what you're thinking now! Gloom, despair, and agony, surely!

There was a little spot over the 4 in the date. When I dunked it in the acetone bath, I yipped audibly. The liquid immediately turned bright purple! It was ink!

After assuring the neighbor I was okay, I removed it from "the soup" and carded it. This one's never been cleaned! Not with that skin! WOW!

I assert that the cellophane is obscuring the finer points in the detail, and the COLOR! Gasp! So, I have to indulge your imagination on this one. It's an XF (or very close to it), and oh, so original! (Except for the bright spot that was previously protected all these years by a stray, errant blob from the ink well.) The bottom edge of the ribbon is so sharp you could cut your finger - and there is hair detail in the bangs. Ditto for the veins in the leaves on the reverse. Very little of this features is my pics, unfortunately. And I JUST freshly carded her; I don't want to take her out again. :(

Yum!!

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I can't explain my sudden fascination with Barber dimes. I just think it's so neat that a haircut was only 10 cents in the 1890s. And that they actually went to the trouble of minting a coin expressly for this purpose!

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Congrats! You definitely gamble based on that terrible picture but at that price you have little to lose. Well done with another great find!

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Matthudson wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:40 am I can't explain my sudden fascination with Barber dimes. I just think it's so neat that a haircut was only 10 cents in the 1890s. And that they actually went to the trouble of minting a coin expressly for this purpose!

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Ah, yes, a nice nos album.
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How nice of them.

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#6 Unread post by Earle42 »

Another great dime deal! Congratulations :)


Its sad, but I am too OCD to start a collection where I know I cannot fill all the holes.

That 1894-S hole would drive me nuts. It took me 54 years to fill the 1916-D Mercury hole, and they made 256 thousand of those. Since only 24 of the 1894-S dime were made, the math shows it would take 576,000 years from now for me to fill that hole.

...now I am sure I could get someone in China to help fill the hole, but that would still leave the hole empty IMO :D
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Earle42 wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:31 pm Another great dime deal! Congratulations :)


Its sad, but I am too OCD to start a collection where I know I cannot fill all the holes.

That 1894-S hole would drive me nuts.
Just put two dimes in the slot! Duh!

Same here, or the jokester that designed the "Rare" plug for the 1913 Liberty Nickel in the Whitman folders, et al.

Plus, the last page doesn't have enough slots for the rest of the '94-S dimes! And the added cost/effort of replacing the slides to PVC free ones. Oh, and did I mention he want $20 for it? :roll:

Now, if I found this album at a rummage sale with the coins already in it...

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rrogers015 wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:00 am Congrats! You definitely gamble based on that terrible picture but at that price you have little to lose. Well done with another great find!
As stated, I have past experience with this seller. He posts all of his coins this way and nobody bothers to point out to him that he's gravely under-representing his items! Never had a turkey from him yet. I'm even over my initial queasiness that he photographs his coins in the bathroom! LOL!

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#9 Unread post by JTCC »

Here’s my solution for the un-fillable hole. :shifty: :shifty:
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