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Denver Buffaloes Include Three-Leg Error - NumisMaster
Nov 3 at 11:11am
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.
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Survivors not mintages key to “S” Buffaloes - Numismatic News
Oct 28 at 10:10am
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.
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Mintage No Indicator of 1919-S Buffalo nickel availability - NumisMaster
Aug 4 at 8:08pm
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.
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Hunting for Buffaloes - NumisMaster
Jun 18 at 11:11pm
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.
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