Anyone here familiar with V-nickel varieties?
Butteredfatkid
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I checked an 1883 no cents V nickel I recently got in from great collections, and turns out it’s an unattributed FS-1302 repunched date! The coin is currently housed in a pcgs OGH ms65 slab and I’m not too sure what to do with it yet. I’ve got some options in front of me, but am trying to figure out what would be the best choice. Also is anyone knowledge on what type of value this adds on? Couldn’t find much for auction results
Option 1: Leave it in the OGH and add a sticker to the slab designating the variety
Option 2: Send it to PCGS for a reholder and variety attribution, making it a pop 2 at 65 with one higher at 65+, for a total population of 27. Downfall is loosing the OGH for a new holder
Option 3: Send it to NGC for a crossover and variety designation. If the cross is successful that would make it a top pop 2/0 in ms65 for a total population of 4. Downfall could be the coin not crossing, but it has the upside of being a lower population
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I would leave it alone and put a sticker on it to note the variety; how many people are there that would care about this minor variety anyway?
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Your excellent pictures for the variety would be all that is needed when time to sell. Leave in in the OGH and get a CAC if you please. Maybe a gold bean?
bob
I vote option 1 also.
V nickel varieties, while interesting to me, are not very popular with the variety crowd, and curiously enough, not very poor with V nickel collectors either.
This is a series that still has varieties out there, waiting to be discovered.
@Butteredfatkid I would agree with the FS-1302 Variety, i would not think much of a premium, it would probably not outweigh the fees incurred to reholder and attribute through our host...however... @messydesk does attribute varieties and places his information label on the backside of the slab/holder for a very reasonable fee...and a quick turnaround. Here is a thread I posted a little while back with some examples of his handiwork; https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1038240/a-couple-varieties-attributed-by-messydesk#latest
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Your variety is listed in the online reference; they don't have a price guide for it.
http://www.libertynickels.org/variety.php?lnid=1004
I think you have done as much as you can in terms of price research.
Your coin would upgrade the #2 PCGS registry set, and several of the lower sets, so you might be able to offer it to those folks,
if selling is your goal.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/nickels/liberty-nickels-specialty-sets/liberty-nickels-complete-variety-set-circulation-strikes-1883-1912/2606