1932 Near or Far nickel?

Look at the bottom of the 2 left side on your lower scan. Then look at the bottom of the 2 above left side and your above scan and you can see a difference in both.

High 2 Far from rim. You're mixing varieties here. Near and Far describe from date to rim. The photo you're comparing to is for date high and close to leaf or date low.

High 2

That's very interesting. Just to be clear, what are the three varieties? I assume that "High 9" would be one of them...

Hello everyone, sorry for being a bit of a nag about this topic, but I'm sort of anxious about this issue being sorted out. So forgive me if this has become tiresome.

I initially identified the 1932 nickel varieties in this post as "near 2" and "far 2" because that's what they're called in the latest Charlton guide, and also what they're referred to throughout this previous forum topic thread: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...IC_ID=77970. Also an article scan in that thread(shown beneath) refers to them as "near" and "far."

In the current thread, it's been brought up by Zonad that these varieties should be referred to as "High 2" and "Low 2," which is how they were referred to as in the accompanying picture in my first post. I really don't care whether it's called "high and low" or "near and far," though it'd be nice to have something of an agreement or consensus on it.

Now, having always believed that there are two varieties of 1932 nickel, it's recently been brought up by littlemoney that there are in fact three varieties. But what is this third variety?

Now, I've posted two of the coins I have in this thread already. Forgive me for reposting them again. One is clearly a high/near variety:

and the other is clearly a low/far variety:

My initial question about what variety the coin I first posted was doesn't really matter anymore.

What I've been confused by and want to have cleared up in this thread:
1. What are the 1932 nickel varieties called? "Near and far" or "high and low"?
2. Is there a third variety? If so, how is it distinguished and what is it called?

Okay, I think I may be seeing what you're getting at here. You're saying that there are three varieties, and that they are:
1. High 2, Near to the rim
2. High 2, Far from the rim
3. Low 2

Am I correct in saying this?

I assume that since the low 2 is supposedly the rarest of them, that it doesn't not split into near and far from the rim.

So what you've been saying is that "near" and "far" when referring to five cent coins describes the distance of the S from the rims (with the exception of 1926, I'm guessing).

Have I got this all right?

Apologies for the confusion. Believe me, it was mutual. Having an entire previous thread using "near 2" and "far 2" sort of messed up my thinking.

Aren't nickels fun?...

Now having singled out a low 2 from my collection, I'll now have to split my 1932s into near and far rims.

As a side note, I've only been able to tell the difference between near and far rims by the shape of the S end nearest the rim.