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Hey Everyone, Check Out This Really Cool Buffalo Nickel

WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
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A PCGS MS66 from my Benson herd. You like?

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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Very nice buffalo........but you have got to get rid of that color thing in your sig. It is driving us all crazyimage
  • dan1ecudan1ecu Posts: 1,573
    Beautiful! With that toning it looks like some high-grade matte proofs that I’ve seen.
    Dan McInnes

    mcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu">dmcinnes@mailclerk.ecok.edu
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Exceptional...what is not to like?

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like...I'll give it a thumbs up. image
    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
    Thank You, I was kinda getting tried of those other ugly coins. This one is a real BEAUTY!!!! image
    Glenn
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    I cant remember seeing a Buffalo Nickel with that much detail.

    Best struck Buff I,ve ever seen I think.

    I wonder if the color developed in the holder?As in the coin not being properly neutralized after a dip?
    Is it original toning?
    Nickels are tough in that they can tone so many different ways.Very hard to tell AT from NT sometimes.
    Note in PCGS Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection,page C-21 that rainbow Buff was pointed out to be
    artifically toned,much to the schgrin of PCGS.
    Oops.

    Either way ,yours looks like a gem to me.
  • WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭
    Cam40, I do believe that they acquired their toning from the Wayte-Raymond albums
    that they were stored in as part of the collection of the late DR Benson. Anyone?
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    Not to be confrontational but wouldnt the side facing the back have a different toning than the side facing out?

    Those did have backs like Whitman books right?

    I dont really know so I,m asking.
    Is the color consistant with Wayte Raymond holdered Buffs?

    If not for the pedegree I might consider cracking / dipping ,properly? / resubmit.
    But in this case,thats too risky. Leave it as is. Its fine.

    Did I mention the coin IS a gem?

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Like it? You kidding? I LOVE IT!!!image

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  • ANACONDAANACONDA Posts: 4,692 ✭
    I've seen many buffalo nickels with toning just like that. I'd be very surprised if it were not formed naturally over the years.

    Nickel is apparently fairly reactive and cool colors are not unusual.

    I just sold a 1915-S Buffalo with some cool colors for around 6K. A PCGS MS 66 coin. It never made it to eBay.

    adrian
  • TwowoodTwowood Posts: 518 ✭
    Beautiful coin.
    Do you find that you get a higher or lower rating in your registry sets when you submit beautifully toned coins like this one? Or doesn't toning count in grading for Registry sets? Twowood
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Beautiful coin. And, keep the color thingy. I like it..........Ken
  • DoctorOfToneDoctorOfTone Posts: 81


    AT Buffalo in a major slab, Binion or not.
    The D.O.T.

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