Heritage has had at least one Featured Collection in each U.S. Coin auction since I started cataloging here, and the June Long Beach Auction is no exception. There are three Featured Collections this go-round, the most prominent of which is The Brenda John Collection. If you haven’t seen this collection already, it’s chock-full of top-quality Lincoln cents and Buffalo nickels ...
Full Article: Coin Monday: 1916/1916 - Heritage Blog
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The 1926-S Buffalo nickel has to rank as one of the more difficult dates to predict in terms of price in the past century. When a date like the 1926-S seems to defy logic that usually means that there are a number of factors at work and that can make an already interesting date all the more fascinating.
The 1926-S Buffalo nickel has a mintage of 970,000. There were very few coins in the past century that had mintages below ...
Full Article: Buffalo Nickel's Availability Not Logical - NumisMaster
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How many Buffaloes does it take to make collectors happy? That sounds like a silly question, but considering recent trends, perhaps it is not so silly.
The Buffalo commemorative silver dollar was issued in 2001. A buffalo was put on the nickel again in 2005. Kansas has a single buffalo on its 2005 quarter and North Dakota’s 2006 quarter sports two. There is even a Buffalo gold coin, which also was created in 2006 ...
Full Article: Buffalo fans should go back to first issue - Numismatic News
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How many Buffaloes does it take to make collectors happy?
That sounds like a silly question, but considering recent trends, perhaps it is not so silly. The Buffalo commemorative silver dollar was issued in 2001. A buffalo was put on the nickel again in 2005. Kansas has a single buffalo on its 2005 quarter and North Dakota’s 2006 quarter sports two. There is even a Buffalo gold coin, which also was created in 2006 ...
Full Article: Buffalo Fans Should Go Back to First Issue - NumisMaster
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This all-American girl wanted to collect the all-American coin, the Buffalo nickel. Buffalo nickels were plentiful in change when I began collecting in the late 1960s. The set wasn't all that long, spanning the years 1913-1938, and there were no major rarities to stop me. Easy task, right?
Wrong. Collecting Buffalo nickels turned out to be a challenge that is still with me after over 40 years as a numismatist...
Full Article: Buffalo Nickel Set Collected and Recollected - NumisMaster
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This week’s series facts are for Buffalo Nickels. This series, along with the Morgan Dollars, is one of the most collected of all U.S. coins. If you would like to add to or discuss this desirable series, be sure to log in and add your two-cents, or five-cents, worth!
Read article: Series Facts: Buffalo Nickels - Stella
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Woodbridge Mayor John E. McCormac and members of the Woodbridge Township Municipal Council will join the Historical Association of Woodbridge Township and the Woodbridge Township Historic Preservation Commission in opening an exhibit on the clay industry of Woodbridge at Woodbridge Town Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 6 p.m.
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The Buffalo nickel came along at an interesting time in American history. Many collectors still remember when it could be found in circulation, but in trying to assemble a set today and finding that coins especially from branch mints like Denver are usually tougher, we can sometimes forget the collection conditions as they existed back in 1913 when the first Buffalo nickel was produced.
First off, the nickel was worth a lot of money. You could get lunch and a beer for a nickel. The five-cent cigar was commonplace, though whether they were good or not is the subject of a famous saying.
Read article: Denver Buffaloes Include Three-Leg Error - NumisMaster
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Buffalo nickels have always been popular. A large part of that popularity has to be traced to the James Earle Fraser design, which was only the second time a coin of the United States was created using a real Native American as the model. Couple that with a large and impressive bison on the reverse and you had a coin that was certain to please many.
Consider the fact that the design was adopted for use on a gold bullion coin and has also been used on the American Buffalo silver dollar and you have a design that has been used more than any other design in American history.
Read article: Survivors not mintages key to "S" Buffaloes - Numismatic News
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Things were pretty confusing back in 1919. The heavily favored White Sox lost the World Series to Cincinnati, and no one really could understand that. Then there was the 1919-S Buffalo nickel. Based on its mintage, it would not seem like a good Buffalo nickel date but somehow, based on prices, has turned out to be a lot better than anyone might have expected.
Read entire article: Mintage No Indicator of 1919-S Buffalo nickel availability - NumisMaster
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It's hard for me to realize that it has now been 70 years since the last Buffalo nickel was coined. Although I was born a few years after that event, Buffalo nickels were still circulating and not the dateless variety, eitherwhen I started collecting coins in the mid-1950s.
Think about it: I began my roll searches, which often involved rolls of nickels, less than 20 years after Buffalo nickels stopped being minted.
Entire article: Hunting for Buffaloes - NumisMaster
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