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The quality of the restoration job means a lot. I always thought treating the entire coin, not just the date area, yields better results. It might bring a couple of bucks on ebay but it will never bring anywhere near what a natural date, non-restored coin will bring. Regardless, the coin will always be a details coin. |
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There's a dealer in California that has 21-S restored Buffaloes in VG : 3 feathers $80 > 2 feathers $205 > 2 1/2 feathers $95 .  |
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Sadly, it's worth whatever someone will pay. I have seen wayyyy to many of these sell on ebay for way more than they should, especially a fully treated one. It does bring out more of the details evenly, but looks horrible. I personally would never go out of my way to buy one, but if one was in a lot I wouldn't pay more than a dateless, as hfjacinto said. Edited by Ty2020b
06/28/2020 3:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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 Well put. ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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OK, so the answer is, not very much in the US, and in Canada probably even less.
Thanks.
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There is a small market for restored rare-variety Buffs. A restored date 1916 DDO or 1918-D/1917-D DDO will sell as a filler. I've seen a couple 1913-S Type 2 Buffs sell with restored dates, as well There isn't much of a market for the other restored date Buffs, because inexpensive AG/G Buffs with unrestored dates are readily available. An original VG-08 1921-S Buff right now runs <$70, and a natural date AG is $20-25. |
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Well, if a natural date 1921S in AG is $20-25, then a restored date probably couldn't be more than 10-25% of that.
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with you guys . I don't know why that one dealer is asking so much money for his restored Buffaloes .  |
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As far as I'm concerned those are just damaged coins.
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Several years ago I was asked by an estate sale company I worked with to make an offer for a large coin collection. In the collection there were 2 nearly full Library Of Coins Buffalo nickel albums with mostly nik-a-dated coins. Almost every coin had the classic round dot over the dates. Many of them had what appeared to be green PVC slime. I looked through the albums, saw the condition, & put the albums in the pile of items I wasn't interested in. When I talked with the people running the estate sale I told them the coins were damaged & therefore not worth as much. When they asked how much they should sell them for I told them I didn't have any idea what the market was for coins in that shape. I wasn't comfortable making an offer or giving pricing guidance. They ended up pricing the 2 albums somewhere around $200 each. At the time I helped the estate sale company out on the days they had sales. For this sale they asked me to monitor the jewelry/coin table to keep items from disappearing. On the 1st day of the sale several collectors looked at the albums, saw the condition of the nickels, & put them back down. On the 2nd day a guy showed up that obviously didn't know anything about coins. He ended up buying a bunch of modern mint/proof sets that were priced at high retail...& the 2 albums of Buffalo nickels. I saw the same guy at another estate sale several weeks later. He told me he listed the nickels individually on ebay and made over $4000...... |
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Ahhh ebay, the perfect platform for the blind to lead the blind. |
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Quote:Ahhh ebay, the perfect platform for the blind to lead the blind. |
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I'm assuming he had the major Buffalo errors in those books .  |
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The two restored date 1916 DDOs that I saw change hands sold for well over $1,000 each. A natural date AG is north of $2,200. The 1918-D/1917-D DDO is, of course, much less expensive, and the handful of restored date coins that I saw were in the $100 range. The 1913-S Type 2 restored date coins that I have seen were offered for sale, but I can't remember any changing hands. |
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The only coin the guy mentioned specifically was the 1918/17. Truth is once I saw the condition I didn't even think about checking for the rarities. I'm assuming none of the collectors that rejected the albums the first day of the sale did either.
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Posted 06/28/2020 1:29 pm
