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Hey all, posting this per 1buff2many's request. I picked it up on ebay in the Spring on a best offer. It was pretty affordable relative to the rarity and is the most abraided 16s I've seen around. There's not many images anywhere, so there's nothing to compare this one to unfortunately. I think it may be cleaned but otherwise seems it good shape. Curious to hear the others weigh-in on grade, condition, etc.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Sure looks good to me!  |
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yep!! Looks real good to me too. nice find
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United States
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Jadenusa thanks so much for posting, really great example and another very hard one to locate. I have seen so few pictures of these but this looks fully abraded in the 3rd feather area, some have a bit left next to the second feather but this looks later die state than those and cleaner. They really went after scouring the obverse die in the front of the neck and looks to be a broken nose variety as well. The obverse looks to have pretty strong Machine Doubling which seems to be more common on the later die state examples in general. The obverse die is pretty late stage but the reverse might be more like middle stage and probably better to grade from. I think this is VF condition maybe the cleaning details it but not sure. Be great to get more thoughts on this. It is interesting with this pretty clear 2F that PCGS and NGC don't seem to have an attribution for this, wonder about ANACS. Thanks so much for sharing this great example. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Looking good! Thanks for sharing with us.
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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@fortcollins must be on vacation, was hoping to hear from him by now!  Drop some knowledge on me man, would love to learn more about this year as I haven't seen much written about the 16-s 2F at all.  Incidentally, I'd place my vote today to have you be Ron Pope's successor.  We need a new authority to get some of these other varieties listed as FS! |
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Last update post for a while, this coin is now slabbed and attributed! This is the first 1916 S 2 Feather Buffalo I've seen attributed. The cleaning details grade was not a surprise but the tooling was interesting to see.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Congratulations on the 2F. Errers and Varietys.
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Excellent! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Wonder where they thought the tooling was ? I can't see it.
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The coin is also clashed.
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Pillar of the Community
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52Raymo: The "Tooling" are all the fine parallel scratches on the obverse
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Posted 07/15/2022 8:44 pm
Uncirculated American Silver Eagles 
