The 1919-D Buffalo....my comments
BuffaloIronTail
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The 1919-D Buff is one tough coin! It is extremely difficult to find any of them in top-shape collectable condition (VF- and up) today.
A study of Mints, and rarities (condition-wise) in the 20th Century annalls of coinage point to 1919 at Denver as being a real stopper for quality, fully struck, coinage in almost all denominations.
One need only to look at the 1919-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar, and you will quickly discover the merits of this thread.
Yes, you can get them..........anywhere, anytime........but if you want them decent, nicely struck, higher grade......the price jumps to the stratosphere!!!
Same with the humble 5-Cent Denver coin of that date and Mint.
I have said.....and I do still believe.....that 1927-D is the sleeper. Everyone looks past that date to purchase earlier Buffs in decent grades. But I also believe that hands down, 1919-D is much more difficult to find as a decent specimen to your Buff set.
Here are the deficiencies to 1919-D:
1) Poorly struck from overworked and overused dies.
2) TERRIBLE high-point definition on, and including, Mint-state examples.
3) Hardly ever, if never seen with a fully detailed top feather. The bottom one also fades near the tip.
4) Most....not all...but still most have bad definition, including flatness, to the head of the Buff.
5) Peripheral elements, around and near the rim are ill-defined.
6) A general, hard to describe softness to the whole coin. (1919-P also has this malady)
Post yours with your comments.............Or really, just your comments alone. (I'm interested in what ya say)
We'll see how they stack up.
Pete
A study of Mints, and rarities (condition-wise) in the 20th Century annalls of coinage point to 1919 at Denver as being a real stopper for quality, fully struck, coinage in almost all denominations.
One need only to look at the 1919-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar, and you will quickly discover the merits of this thread.
Yes, you can get them..........anywhere, anytime........but if you want them decent, nicely struck, higher grade......the price jumps to the stratosphere!!!
Same with the humble 5-Cent Denver coin of that date and Mint.
I have said.....and I do still believe.....that 1927-D is the sleeper. Everyone looks past that date to purchase earlier Buffs in decent grades. But I also believe that hands down, 1919-D is much more difficult to find as a decent specimen to your Buff set.
Here are the deficiencies to 1919-D:
1) Poorly struck from overworked and overused dies.
2) TERRIBLE high-point definition on, and including, Mint-state examples.
3) Hardly ever, if never seen with a fully detailed top feather. The bottom one also fades near the tip.
4) Most....not all...but still most have bad definition, including flatness, to the head of the Buff.
5) Peripheral elements, around and near the rim are ill-defined.
6) A general, hard to describe softness to the whole coin. (1919-P also has this malady)
Post yours with your comments.............Or really, just your comments alone. (I'm interested in what ya say)
We'll see how they stack up.
Pete
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I've actually had quite a bit of luck locating well struck specimens despite what David Lange believes. The real problem as you mentioned is simply finding high grade pieces. Mint state coins, when you can find them, start at $1,000 and go up very quickly.
P.S. I agree with you concerning the 27-D. It is a big-time sleeper! Many of the MS64 specimens would be better graded as MS63 or worse. Another case of market grading.
<< <i>I agree pete! check out the fully struck ngc65 on ebay by darin-5, a 27d that is. >>
Ed, I'm assuming you mean the coin below? This is the single best strike I've ever seen for a 27-D. The only real areas of weakness occur on the upper most edge of LIBERTY and possible the split tail area. If this were a 64, I'd be ALL OVER IT!