What would you be willing to pay for this buffalo nickel ??

BUFFNIXX

jesbroken

Not much, but still would like own one, hopefully someday.
Jim

cladking

It looks better than most of my old rare coins but I usually get them pretty cheap.

I'd have to see it in hand but around $40.

It's hard to find buyers for coins like this usually but it's probably worth a couple hundred or a little more.

hfjacinto

It looks like an 1918/17 but I wouldn't pay more than $1.00 its just not appealing. I like the one I have in the spot more than that one.

nwcoast

It looks like it was dug up as a detector find.
Pretty rough looking for sure, but given the significance and presentation of the overdate, I’d go $35-40 for it. I suspect others would go much higher.

braddick

Strong date.
I'd pay $200.00 on a whim.
$400. if I needed it for a set.
Edited to add:
Although I'd wait and save up a couple of hundred more and get a problem-free GD04.

mr1931S

@cladking said:
It looks better than most of my old rare coins but I usually get them pretty cheap.

I'd have to see it in hand but around $40.

It's hard to find buyers for coins like this usually but it's probably worth a couple hundred or a little more.

$40-$50 is about right imo. Grading fees take up most of that value.Takes a motivated seller for a buyer to be able to buy a coin like this for $50.

BuffaloIronTail

I wouldn't buy it.

It would upset me every time I looked at it.

Pete

Vetter

Looks like it’s in a slab. Details grade for sure. Even though I have a details grade in my collection (no where near as bad as this one and it’s the 16/16) this is one I would pass on unless the price was to good.

gumby1234

I wouldn't buy it. If I am buying an 18/17 I want one that I could at least appreciate.

Cougar1978

No go - Would reject it.

Manifest_Destiny

I try to avoid problem coins, although I have a details 71-cc quarter, so there's that.

PerryHall

It would be a great hole-filler for a collector on a budget if it was priced low enough.

COINS MAKE CENTS

If the slab it's in says it's an 18/7 I'd pay 100 for it

davewesen

I have looked at hundreds of 18/7-Ds trying to cherrypick one. I would pay $100 for that one considering it is so ugly.

cmerlo1

The line between 'attractively toned' and environmental damage is very clear here.

privatecoin

50/50 on whether I'd pay. 50.

BLUEJAYWAY

I only would consider buying it if I were to quickly flip it/had a buyer in mind. Too unattractive for a hold.

Vetter

I just found this coin on eBay. The seller has lofty expectations to say the least.

Avocet

I would pass on it-- fields are not clear enough to fully appreciate it.

Typekat

VG with sharp overdate and colorful subterranean charm, plus already slabbed - maybe $200 wholesale, with hopes for 325 retail someday?

1Bufffan

Corrosion is a little to heavy for me, hard to see die crack down jaw line from braid and to see if "D" M/M leans back, sorry but I would pass on this for a "Better" specimen even if I had to wait a long time, but of course if this was Cherrypicked for cheap it would be something to talk about.

coinbuf

I would not be willing to pay for this coin in this condition, I really don't care much about varieties so if I never own one I will not lose sleep over it. If I wanted one I would much rather save up and purchase an eye appealing example over the one pictured here.

124Spider

I like some varieties (typically, the kind one doesn't need a microscope to see, like a nice DDO or RPM), and I actively collect Buffalo nickels. A copy of this coin is the coin on which I spent more than I ever have on any other coin. So I know how quickly the price of this one gets into the stratosphere.

But I learned years ago that I get very little pleasure out of most very-worn coins. I bought a 1916-D Mercury dime to fill out the set; PCGS G04. I believe that it is accurately graded, but it's not attractive to me. It's worth a good deal more now that I paid for it years ago, so I don't particularly regret the purchase, but I don't enjoy looking at the coin.

Now, if I can't convince myself to spend as much as a reasonably nice copy costs, I don't buy one. Hence the continuing holes in my collections for the 1916 standing Liberty quarter and the 1893-S Morgan dollar. And the reason why I don't own a 1918/7-S standing Liberty quarter, despite lusting after one.

It's a tough hobby for the impecunious (and I don't pretend that I'm impecunious, just not wealthy enough to swim in the real deep end).

cladking

I'm surprised how little people like this coin, It's a nice F+/VF- with a strike from heavily worn dies underneath it's damage and tarnish.

There are lots of cull and details coins I wouldn't want to own even at a very steep discount but this specific cull looks like a hole filler to me. Obviously anyone with a couple thousand dollars to spend would prefer a nice circulated VG with a strong date but these are very pricey and I'm put off less by this one than many others. An AG- acid date specimen will probably sell for over $100.

I guess I'd rather upgrade my collections than have holes in them.