Pair Of Circulated 1975-D Nickels With High Mint Mark, $831 And $505.

It's one of those unsolved mysteries. Like, Why do the Cheerios pennies sell for $25.00 on ebay.

Well gonna have to search my 5 cent coins yet again.

Fake sale Brandmeister - look at the bidding. Definitely one or more shills involved.

The variety got an FS number (401 I think) a few years ago and will likely show up in the next edition of the Cherry Pickers Guide (if they do another edition).

Since the FS designation, PCGS now attributes the variety :

https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/197...ption-071515.

It's just not showing up on Coinfacts yet, but NGC and ANACS both attribute it and it showed up in a recent edition of the Red Book.

I suspect part of the reason for the high value is that because the variety was not "discovered" until 40 years after it was minted there was no effort by the collecting community to find and preserve examples so it remains very hard to find, especially in higher grades.

and it looks like both winners have 2072 feedbacks.....

I agree the first 'shill' was continually updating its bid every so many seconds to drive up the price.
When I'm bidding on something and I see that, I stop bidding and let the item go.

That's interesting. So PCGS attributed it as a minor variety on that HA slab. I was unaware that the 75D had a new CPG entry. Where do those even appear if they haven't been published in a book edition?

I am still hazy on what someone would gain by running a fake auction on ebay, aside from maybe hooking in a buyer for more money than they should have spent.

You can add the 2005 5¢ Speared Bison and the 2000 $1 Wounded Eagle into that category. And I guess the Spitting Eagle quarters. The Bugs Bunny Franklin halves, too. It's a long tradition. =P