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<p>[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 8582246, member: 19250"]Ron Pope had the 1915 ADO 2F #02 listed as very scarce </p><p>Ron had it listed in XF $275/300. However with those carbon spots I would lower the amount to half....if not less.</p><p>No buffalo nickel collector who would want a 2 feather example wouldn't want the carbon spots. As they are terminal. You cannot remove them....and if there's any signs of them on any parts of the coin would lead the buyer to believe that more can and may surface, Ron told me they were a curse as they can just surface over the coin. You can see them on your specimen over the entire Obv. Some quite large.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a 1934 D that was beatiful, it graded PCGS, ms 67 and then the spots began to surface a $600 buffalo nickel reduced to make me an offer coin. If you soak it in acetone they will turn brown....then return to black... Unfortunately thats the way of the buffalo. Nice coin less those damn spots.[ATTACH=full]1512231[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1512232[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ron is no longer with us as he had passed last November ...so I tweaked the values on the 1915 2 F in xf its a $450 coin pop is 4 at pcgs in xf . Of course with no details[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 8582246, member: 19250"]Ron Pope had the 1915 ADO 2F #02 listed as very scarce Ron had it listed in XF $275/300. However with those carbon spots I would lower the amount to half....if not less. No buffalo nickel collector who would want a 2 feather example wouldn't want the carbon spots. As they are terminal. You cannot remove them....and if there's any signs of them on any parts of the coin would lead the buyer to believe that more can and may surface, Ron told me they were a curse as they can just surface over the coin. You can see them on your specimen over the entire Obv. Some quite large. I had a 1934 D that was beatiful, it graded PCGS, ms 67 and then the spots began to surface a $600 buffalo nickel reduced to make me an offer coin. If you soak it in acetone they will turn brown....then return to black... Unfortunately thats the way of the buffalo. Nice coin less those damn spots.[ATTACH=full]1512231[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1512232[/ATTACH] Ron is no longer with us as he had passed last November ...so I tweaked the values on the 1915 2 F in xf its a $450 coin pop is 4 at pcgs in xf . Of course with no details[/QUOTE]
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