Buff 5 cent - 1915d did not get designation
bigtonydallas
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I just got back my second coin with an explination too early a die state to get 2 feather designation. I think they are wrong. What do you all think?
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Looks like the 2 feather to me.
Me too.
You may want to try our host on that one. Die state aside, it either has the feather or it doesn't. Yours doesn't.
It certainly looks like one to me also, and it looks better than a vf20 from here!
Can you post a better picture?
if the grade / designation does not fit, you must resubmit or try elsewhere
Agreed. When I zoom in it’s out of focus just enough to where I can’t judge the coin.
All told as it stands it appears to be a two feather.
I don't think that they liked that small piece that borders the feather on the left side in the picture.
Pete
Pete-that's characteristic for the variety. I don't believe it's a remnant of the feather.
OK Ron. Didn't know that. I learn something new every day.
Pete
Definitely looks like a 2 feather to me.
Every one I've seen (which isn't many) look like this. The anomaly couldn't be a remnant of the third feather as it is not configured correctly-it is in the wrong place and is in much too high relief to be the shallow, low relief of that design element.
But that opinion may not agree with NCG's opinion.
That's > @291fifth said:
That's all the more reason to submit it to PCGS. They've slabbed 13 of them.
Glad I saw this post. I was going to send my two circulated 1913 type one three and one half leggers to ngc for attribution since pcgs is now closed. But I will just wait till they reopen.
a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
I'd be comfortable buying this as the 2 feather variety every time.
who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
twenty times.
Well I am also unemployed right now because of the pandemic. I will have to wait once I am employed again to send them both to PCGS which I should have done in the first place. Maybe Ill find a 1923 2 feather to send as well. LOL
PS my scanner is a piece of sh_t!!! lol
That would be an accomplishment-it's probably the toughest of 'em all. Good luck!
Die state shouldn't matter if the feather has been polished off the die. I only see two feathers in the pics, but I'd have to look at it in hand to attempt to rationalize their explanation.
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an explination too early a die state to get 2 feather designation.
That's astonishing! So they wait until the dies turn to mush before issuing designations? It's no secret how they high grade mushy Jefferson nickels. Wow!
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I totally agree. I think a statement like that says a lot about the knowledge of this type of error of the person making it.
I had a 1915-D that I submitted to another grading service a while back, it only has 2 feathers but it didn't fit their diagnostics of an accepted 2 feather variety. I don't have the Fivaz book I think the diagnostics are in there.
There's a generic image of the 2 feather variety pictured therein. Here's a different image of the '15-D from my book. The small ridge of metal along the inside of the large feather is not, in my opinion, the remnant of the third feather as the relief is equal to the large feather. The small third feather is in much lower relief.