You will notice that there could be two versions of each. One would have a blue union bug and the other a red union bug. So far I have only ever seen the Iowa pins with a red union bug. All of these pins are 1" It took me several years after the 2008 election to get 3/4 pins. I have yet to find an SC version, but I did pick up a red union bug pin for Iowa. The Nevada and South Carolina pins seem to be the harder to get versions from the 2008 set.
The 2020 pins are a little larger than your standard 2.25" pins, with the exception of the Iowa, which appears to be the standard size. The Iowa pin showed up after the Iowa Steak Fry in the fall of 2019.
Of the four, the NH pin was the easy one to get. The Iowa pin may be the toughest as a bunch of the NV and South Carolina ones got into the hands of collectors recently. For a while, the IA, NV, and SC were all equally scarce. It is unclear why the NH pin does not follow the standard 'Works for X' layout. So there they are the only state-specific pins issued during the early primary contests for Biden that we know of right now.
One last pin that caught the eye of collectors on the night of the Iowa Caucus was the Precinct Captain button. It's a huge 4" pin with Biden's photo on it.
These pins were used in Iowa and Nevada from the photos I saw from caucus night. I am unsure if they were used in NH or SC. In both Nevada and Iowa, they came with a precinct captain t-shirt. A spectacular button from the campaign and highly sought after by collectors. A large number of them did come onto the market after the Iowa caucus so collectors may have spent anywhere from $50 to $100+ for pins early on, but many likely got them for below $40 by the beginning of March 2020.
Some really great pins from the early days of the Biden 2020 campaign. Have you seen any other 'Works For X' buttons issued by the campaign?
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