1930-S BUFF 2 FEATHER
bigtonydallas
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I won this auction on ebay.com . I know it is only VG and probably cleaned but this is a semi rare 2 feather. I have not received it yet.
What do you all think?
Big Tony from Texas! Cherrypicking fool!!!!!!
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Not bad, I am not a fan of two feather buffalos but I think you got a bargain, but then, i don't know what two-feather buffalos nickels sell for.. Out of all the buffalo nickels I have gone through, I never found a 2-feather. The coin is not a high grade or a full horn, thus is listed incorrectly as such. If that is a full horn, i have a boat load to sell him. That seller with over 300,000 feedback should know better. Still, for what it is, you did not overpay.
Nice cherrypick Tony! That's one of the tougher ones. An uncleaned one is worth about $80, but with the cleaning maybe half that.
Looks like it is a two feather... but no full horn - that is barely a full head
Good example of the two feather though... Cheers, RickO
Mbarr is usually much better than this on their grading. Someone must've been asleep at the wheel!
Nice pick, great price.
I'd suggest not posting your picks before they're in hand.
We just had a member lose a cherrypick because they did that a couple weeks ago.
Professional Numismatist. "It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
I waited until the usps had the coin.
You do realize you can do a shipping intercept and stop delivery yeah?
Professional Numismatist. "It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
If they need it that bad more power to them. I guess it would cost about $20 to do it. I dont know.
I had a dealer at a coin show pull that on 2 1970 small date lincolns. He had $5 but i only bought those 2 coins. He looked at them and said he would need $50 each. I learned i should have bought a whole bunch of coins so we would less likely look at the coins.
In some cases that's what I used to do if the cherrypicked coin was good enough.
When i bought the 1918/7 D buff i bought 6 or 7 other coins so the dealer would not inspect my cherry.
I did the same when I cherried an AU58 EMDS 1935 DDR-001. It was carded up so I bought half a dozen others also carded up. They were from a junk box of high grade common date Buffs, Mercs, Washingtons, etc.
Same here, when I got a vf 1773 Virginia half penny out of a dealer's 10 cent foreign box many years ago, I bought 20 coins for $2.00 to avoid suspicion. I Think that he thought it was some kind of an English coin or a token because it has a portrait of King George III on it and says "REX".
Just got the coin in hand. It is the 2 feather in about Fine but cleaned.
Congrats, search any yee shall find.
It's also an "eyeball" die clash. The Native American looks like he has an eyeball. That is formed by a small part of the field adjacent to the bison's belly.