Harrisburg Hullabaloo
BuffaloIronTail
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I guess the population of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania including the banks weren't told about Type II Buffalo Nickels:
August 20, 1913 (The Harrisburg Telegraph)
Pete
"I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
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Great find.
Thanks for posting.
"..scanned..." hehe
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Very observant bank tellers.
When in doubt always call the Secret Service. I guess it was a wasted trip but paid for by the Taxpayers!
Strange case indeed. Counterfeits circulate, but the genuine coins get refused.
Pete
Quite interesting. Thanks!
Interesting article Pete, thanks for posting. Only a member with buffalo in his user-id would be able to find anything like this.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Wow and to think, Francis LeRoy Henning of Erial, New Jersey by then was just a little kid.
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Nice find.
Thanks for the article.
Interesting reflection of the times and the value of money.... Such a furor over nickels...Cheers, RickO
Much attention was paid to the reverse modifications but one obverse modification is rarely mentioned. It is defined in the second paragraph here and concerns the date.
The modification helped to a small degree but certainly didn't solve the problem.
The information above is courtesy of the "Numismatist" of February, 1914.
Thanks for sharing !!!
Thanks for posting this historical item.
Nice to see the documentation describing the change and why implemented. Cheers, RickO
Side by side pics. The Type I is on the left:
What do you notice?
Pete
The numbers are raised vs incused on Type2
Thank you for sharing the story.
I used to watch Hullabaloo on TV when I was a kid.
Sharper numerals on the Var 2. However, I think this is probably more from differing die states. The dates on the Var 1 coins do wear off quite rapidly, tho, much more so than the later dates.
So THATS where I heard it!
Pete
By the way, this scenario happened in Metuchen, New Jersey and in Utah. Probably a lot more cities, but I stopped researching.
In a time where counterfeiting minor coins (especially nickels) was rampant, I don't understand how the Government would not put some press release out about the change.
But it looks like they did not.
Sad.
Pete
What I notice:
Some sense of depth into the fields for the top surfaces of the date vs. the height of the coin rim. The date is "set-in" more... helping it, by design, to be more protected with age.
A Barber Quartet is made up of Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, and Halves.
Date is recessed?