Very nice! I just checked PCGS price guide and a MS66 FS-103 was sold 1/17 for $705.....IMO, this one should go for substantially more. Again, awesome coin, and thanks for sharing it!
I think of equal importance is that the value remains greatly inflated down to the MS64 level, where there are other sales records for FS-103. It's reasonable, then, to assume that a 66+ would carry the same "double, or nearly that" premium over the "regular" coin. Especially if you can get it beaned, $1k is probably not unrealistic. Perhaps more; these take a huge jump into 67. The difficulty with a variety like this is, the buyer demographic won't be large. Although there's en entry for it in a PCGS Registry, not many collectors seem serious about completing that particular set. Finding the person willing to pay what it's worth would probably require both a brand-name auction house and a little luck, or major outreach to Buffalo-specialist dealers to canvas their regulars on your behalf.
I'm not selling it. I was just curious. It belongs to a collector. I was stunned to see where he paid over $1700 for it at Heritage without the variety on it!
I guess the technical definition of "cherry-picking" is finding a desirable item that's being sold as a less-desirable item. But it just doesn't seem as sporting if you're willing to pay the cherry price to do it...
I hope he knows the underbidder, because that's about the only other guy in the country who's willing to offer that kind of money for it.
That can be disappointing. Here is a 1941-D Washington Quarter DDO FS-101 in MS-67 that was unattributed that I bid on at the beginning of January. The current top pop at PCGS is MS-66 which last sold for just north of $2000.00. The unattributed one on Heritage sold $1997.50. I was prepared to go to $1500.00 on it, but got outbid by someone else that noticed it as well. I think if you get it attributed, it would be worth in the $5,000 - $7,500 range. I didn't have the money to go any higher on it, otherwise I would have.
Doubtful . . . rarely are the highest payers in the room. That's the reason auction records often are substantially lower than published trends.
Yeah, I about fell out of my chair when I first came across it. The bad part was it was part of one of their featured auctions, so it was on display on their site for over a month. Lot's of other eyeballs got to see it too.
I sometimes wonder if these consignors know what they have and bid it up just to see if they can start a bidding war. Who knows.
I would say no for the vast majority of instances when it comes to varieties. Most people don't check every coin for them or they only check specific series/coins for specific ones and then you have people that just honestly don't care about varieties. VAMs are a good example of this. Some people VAM everything, others a few, but a lot of collectors just get Morgans they like and don't think twice about that aspect
First let me say it's a pretty coin. By both grade and variety. But true value on an item as such is only found by what another will pay. I am a collector and one of my favorite coins to collect is the 5 cent piece . But unlike other coins they don't hold their values.( Yeah a 1913 Liberty ) Buffalo's have been on a downward trend. Extremely collected in the 50's and 60's now take a back burner to many other series. And a series that has some major variety coins, and iconic coin. But a series that one must know A - Z about or you could end up over paying for a coin that really going to hard to liquidate. Having had very rare nickels and trying to sell them is a waiting game. I seen in many cases where book values and what another is willing to pay are very far a part . I see today's collector willing to pay for a gold or silver coin more so than a copper or nickel base. No matter how rare. I sold a MS double Monticello about 10 years ago a doctor in Fla . purchased it from me. The same coin in the grade I sold him today is -$400.00 under what he paid me. Unbelievable as when I sold it ....I had seller remorse now.. not so much.
Here's a test on coinzip.com right now is a 1971 S no S Jefferson in PROOF 69 deep camo. One of the top pops. Anyone wanting to guess the hammer price when it ends in 17 days? Remember only 1655 minted. I had one in Pr 67 deep cam......got no where near the book value of $1800.00
A 68 DCAM recently sold at Great Collections for $2695. Two years ago a 67 DCAM sold for $1210. My guess is $1000 for the one in question. I'm basing my lower price on the trends for those in all grades and assuming the population in grade is larger.
Here's another passed holding and should be posted somewhere on this forum . A 1938 Jefferson Proof Nickel that was mounted in one of Felix Schlag souvenir frame signed my him, and witnessed by a notary # 21 what sort of value would you put on a numismatic item like that? Not what you may think or believe .
