About the Authors

Lane J. Brunner, PhD Lane has been a collector since he was in grade school. Like many young collectors, he worked on completing albums and dreamed of finding those rare coins in his pocket change. Late in high school he rekindled his interest in collecting and upon graduation started working in a local coin shop. He continued working as a professional numismatist through most of his early college days and never developed a true passion for a series. It was during graduate school that his interest in United States twenty-cent pieces began to take shape. As he was researching the series what intrigued him most was that there was little literature about the series and what was written was generally a restatement of the same tale of this ephemeral series. It also fascinated him that while collectors clamored for an example for their type sets, there appeared to be little interest in die varieties. The seed was planted. Over the next 20 years, Lane has studied double dimes, collecting different die varieties, locating errors, and seeking out any literature he could find.

John M. Frost John also started collecting coins in grade school, and began taking it seriously by age 14, completing his Lincoln cent set, acquiring a 1909-S VDB by working the snack bar all summer at his neighborhood swimming pool. He began collecting Liberty Seated and Barber coins after his grandfather gave him some dimes of both series. John bought first double dime 30 years ago following college and getting a “real” job (an 1876 in VF, not the typical 1875-S). John soon became intrigued with this short and neglected series, and was most fascinated that one of the all-time classic U.S. rarities, the 1876-CC, resides in this series. While continuing to collect and study the series for the past decade, he has completed multiple sets of twenty-cent pieces, and has helped several others do the same. He is active in Liberty Seated Collectors Club, the Barber Coin Collectors’ Society, and is a frequent exhibitor and educational speaker at local coin clubs, and occasionally, nationally.

The Partnership

Both Lane and John had begun book projects independently and, following an introduction by mutual friend Brian Greer, decided to combine their efforts into this one book. Both realized that by working together, the end result would be far better than it could have ever been by remaining independent. Also, the work would be available much sooner. This book draws from the authors’ collective 50 years of collecting double dimes and 30 years of studying this series.

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