1873 Shield Nickel - Open Or Closed 3? - Page 2

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westcoin Pillar of the Community United States 9792 Posts	Posted 06/14/2016 01:23 am Quote: I sent it to NGC finally and it graded MS64 Congrats! I didn't think that was a scratch, if not for that little contact spot in the horizontal shield lines, it would've surely made a MS65. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 06/14/2016 2:27 pm The real question is,is the attribution correct? NGC is notorious when it comes to Shield nickels for "Well it kind of looks like that one, we'll call it that." When it comes to Shield nickel varieties they are wrong a LOT! (They have nothing to lose, they don't guarantee attributions.) Report this Post to the Staff
westcoin Pillar of the Community United States 9792 Posts	Posted 06/15/2016 03:04 am It appears to the best of my knowledge to be the Fletcher 7 NOT the Fletcher 6. F-6 there is a die crack going through the ball of the shield from high left to low right. Also F6 has horizontal shield lines very strongly doubled at the top. see the following link; http://www.shieldnickels.net/top20/73F06.html "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 Edited by westcoin 06/15/2016 03:05 am Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 06/15/2016 2:48 pm So they have called it a F-6 and pictured it as that variety on their Variety Plus page as the first of that variety they have holdered, and it is actually a misattributed F-7. Sounds normal. Report this Post to the Staff
MeadowviewCollector Pillar of the Community United States 4409 Posts	Posted 06/15/2016 3:34 pm The OP accidentally hit the 6 key instead of the 7 on his 5-30 post. It happens. Maybe when he was re-reading the recent comments he noticed and posted that it was Fletcher-7 For what it's worth here is the NGC Variety page for Fletcher-7 https://www.NGCcoin.com/coin-variet...vp-012-5854/ Notice it is the same coin as the one in the OP. Report this Post to the Staff
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