Barber Ratio

[Twitch]

Are any of you willing to share your ratio of Barber halves to other? Something along the lines of 'I find 1 Barber per X Walkers, or Bens, or whatever". I've never found a Barber and just wondering what a normal find rate would be. Not to be exclusionary but I'm really only interested in numbers greater than 0

I did find 3 64's, 2 40%ers, and 8 proofs today.

Also, I filled up the NIFC book yesterday by finding the '14-D.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dozer D]

I think your ratio request will not be fulfilled since we rarely read ANY posts of barber halfs. I would say keep it as low as WL vs Bens, Ken90, or 40's.

 

[jr98119]

Literally one out of a thousand. I posted mine(an ender) a couple of months ago.

 

[Yinzi50]

It's so rare that the ratio is not meaningful anymore. If you find one in the first thousand, doesn't mean that you will find another one in the next thousand. Same goes the seated half.

 

[MIhunter]

For Halves:
0 Barbers: 18 Walkers: 33 Ben: 101 1964s: 557 40%ers

For Dimes:
2 Barbers: 126 Mercs: 1826 FDRs

 

[TimZim]

I find one barber in every ?1000 boxes, I have found about 5.

 

[fistfulladirt]

One Barber half first $100, 2007, crh

Six Barber dimes, $125,000+, crh

28 Barber halves, quarters and dimes since 2008, dirtfishing.

 

[CC-Hunter]

Zero, maybe one

 

[maine_Jim]

1/1,000 seems about right. These odds can be tossed out the window with one lucky collection dump find. There have been a couple finds posted here that were way above the norm. I seem to recall one was a large Barber half stash found.

Maine_Jim

 

[dreamboxvip]

2 Seated halves (1 from box), 7 barber halves (6 from boxes), will try and add up my walkers and franklins.

 

[Twitch]

2 Seated halves (1 from box), 7 barber halves (6 from boxes), will try and add up my walkers and franklins.

Thanks. For us small volume or short career guys I'm sure they're random. But I'm also confident that after a few million dollars worth of halves Barbers have a fairly fixed ratio, no different than Walkers, Bens, '64s, 40%ers, proofs, magician coins, holed coins, NIFC's, short rolls, etc.... A large enough sample size filters out the noise on just about anything.

 

[Infowarrior]

Ive done 2500ish boxes. found 2 barbers(first one was an ender!) and no seated from boxes, I did get 1 seated(1876) from a $100 sealed bag of halves.

No idea on how many walkers/bens but tons more than barbers.. real rare

 

[BuffaloBoy]

for me it is 0 in 1,250+ boxes of halves, so don't go off of my results!

 

[ArkieBassMan]

0:thousands

 

[FormerTeller]

2 Barbers per 200 90%'s, or 1,000 40%'s.

In my case, another way to look at it is 1 Barber found per 320 boxes searched, which is equivalent to $160,000 or 320,000 halves.

Depending on your age, you may well get arthritis from searching before you find your first Barber. I did...

 

[ugotit22]

In over eight years of hunting and I'd estimate maybe 15k half boxes I've pulled 6 barber halves. I've pulled 5 barber dimes from prob double the amount of boxes.
Only one single seated btw

 

[Twitch]

Thanks everyone. Sounds like right around $750K-$1Mil is about the average volume per Barber.

I'm going to cheat a little and claim that I found 4 Barbers yesterday (V nickels).

 

[bertmaster2000]

Thanks everyone. Sounds like right around $750K-$1Mil is about the average volume per Barber.

I'm going to cheat a little and claim that I found 4 Barbers yesterday (V nickels).

My data will skew the curve...Strangely enough, I've found 2 Barbers in only 55 boxes.

Even more strange is the fact I found only 10, 90% halves in those 55 boxes, which means my Barber to other 90% find ratio is excellent, but my overall find rate is pathetic!

 

[CW3(ret) US Army]

Are any of you willing to share your ratio of Barber halves to other? Something along the lines of 'I find 1 Barber per X Walkers, or Bens, or whatever". I've never found a Barber and just wondering what a normal find rate would be. Not to be exclusionary but I'm really only interested in numbers greater than 0

I did find 3 64's, 2 40%ers, and 8 proofs today.

Also, I filled up the NIFC book yesterday by finding the '14-D.

Thanks in advance.

In some 3 years & 9 months of searching over 750 boxes of halves, I've found 1 Barber half (1908) over 3 years ago. Ironically it was a reverse ender. My 2nd Barber half (1915S) was a teller tray find.
HH
Gary