Two Feather Buffalo Rarity List

Hardware store will do just fine. I pick mine up (in bulk) from Home Depot.

Smart, doing a few few test soaks first. Soak as minimal as possible. If it is indeed pvc, It will come off extremely quick with a brief soak (10-30 seconds) and a light rolling over with a qtip (do not apply pressure). Only roll over with a qtip where it's necessary.

Ty2020b, thanks for letting me know about the population reports for NGC and lack of any additional graded examples from them of the 1923 P 2F.

The 3 from PCGS are a G4, an AU53, and a MS64. They have a nice image set of the MS64 and I just found an image of the AU53 which looks to be an unattributed ANACS crossover to PCGS. I have not found images of the G4 yet, but all 3 examples are part of PCGS registry sets. It is missing from the majority of the registry sets but I can only imagine how desired it would be for the others putting these registry set together to get additional graded examples.

Reviving this thread, with a humble pass by myself, 1buff2many & Ty2020 to modernize the 2006 rarity scale from the late Ron Pope - based on not only the updated graded population but also our own picking and personal non-graded 2F
collections. Hope this is helpful for those who have caught the 2 feather buffalo bug. The URS scale for reference can also be found below. Our counts include data through late 2023 and include 2+F and 2HF.

Year Rarity
1916 S - 6
1923 P - 6
1913 S Type 1 - 7
1915 D - 7
1920 D - 7
1926 D - 7
1913 P Type 1 - 8
1917 P - 8
1917 D - 8
1920 S - 8
1925 D - 8
1927 D - 8
1928 S - 8
1915 P - 9
1918 P - 9
1919 P - 9
1919 D - 9
1919 S - 9
1921 S - 9
1927 S - 9
1930 S - 9
1937 D - 9
1913 D Type 1 - 10
1917 S - 10
1918 S - 10
1920 P - 10
1921 P - 10
1929 S - 10
1916 P - 12
1925 S - 12

If you'd like additional data, here are the few that I've found over the past few years:

1915-P
1916-P x2 (one also missing designer initial)
1917-P x4
1917-S
1918-P
1918-S x3
1919-P x2
1920-P
1920-D x2
1921-P
1925-D
1925-S
1927-S
1928-S

I found these at coin shows / online auctions. I also look through Whitman folders for them and buy the whole lot if I have to - have done that a couple of times. Still looking!

two that I have---

@Tonyqt would love to see a photo of that AG03 1923! So few can be found, it would be a great reference point.

@mikev50 was your 1913-S won a few months ago at a Heritage auction? If so, I was bidding against you on that one! Capped out on what I was willing to spend, but the final hammer $ was still approachable given the rarity.

If 2 Feather varieties got half the attention of the 3-leggers... maybe some day.

Here is the 1923 2 feather I have.

I put Acetone into small used (and cleaned out food jars with a metal twist lid - BUT because of the sealing material inside the lid, I wrap it with tin foil so the acetone fumes won't interact with the sealing compound (which will dissolve and drop into the acetone and contaminate it.)