I only recently found out about this OMM and spotted one at a coin show Friday. When I did a show-and-tell elsewhere someone mentioned there are something like 5 varieties. Since I don't have a Buffalo nickel speciality book and Cherrypicker's only lists one, I've got a couple questions. 1. Is there more than 1 variety? 2. If so, can you ID mine from this scan (Is the notation on the slab the variety type?) And as follow-on questions: 3. Does the 1954 S/D have varieties? 4. Does the 1955 D/S have varieties?
1) Yes there are deveral varieties of the D/S, and several of the D/D. 2) Yours is correct, the most popular one, and strongest D/S. 3> 54 S/D I believe, only one. 4) 55 D/S I believe there are several, but I have to check.
What Treasurehunt said. FS-20.5 or the new FS # FS-511 is the CONECA OMM-001 the most desired. But there are 5 known D/S varieties. There is 1 49 D/S. There is 1 54 S/D (Although I still believe I have a new variety I'm planning on sending to Billy Crawford) There are 11 Known 55 D/S varieties. http://www.conecaonline.org/variety_listings.html
nickelman: Thanks, and I did it from memory. Wel, what they say is true, the memory is the SECOND thing to go. (Unless you ask me whatever my wife has said in the last 28 years. Then it was the first thing to go.)
Well, since we're on a roll here let's see what you think about my '55 D/S. I won't show the '54 S/D since (at least at the moment) there's only one variety. The 4 mintmark images are there to show the mintmark from various lighting angles. Variety, please, if you can ID it.
I've been looking at this a couple of days now! It's hard to tell from your pictures, but I'll guess at OMM#3 , #2 or#7. I'm thinking #3 though!
