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1913-D Type I Buffalo nickel -- guess the grade

gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
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Got it at a local show this morning. Chocolate/caramel toning, lol, indescribably delicious! In hand it's really something, a bit darker than the photo--I really threw some light on it. Take a shot.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Nice nickel. Great strike. 65
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  • ram1946ram1946 Posts: 762 ✭✭
    Wow! Strong strike, detail, no marks that I can see. Looks like it has it all. I would say 66.
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    64
    Early Dollar Set
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    We can't "guess" the grade because it hasn't been graded yet. Not by anyone that "counts," at least image




    Very nice. I'll say choice BU.



  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    I really love these high mound type 1's...its a beauty 65 all the way!
    A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Got it at a local show this morning. Chocolate/caramel toning, lol, indescribably delicious! In hand it's really something, a bit darker than the photo--I really threw some light on it. Take a shot.
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
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    OK, I didn't think of that. At least I "nailed" the grade image
  • SamByrdSamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    you did quite well, that coin is a good example of buy the coin not the slab. You cherry picked a very nice coin for the grade. I would have guessed from the image ms64.
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
    65.5 ????
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  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    I must confess, I did pay just shy of 64 money for it. The seller's mama obviously didn't raise no fool.
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  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭
    Despite what NGC says, I give the image a 64.
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    If the coin is as dark as you say it is, 63 sounds about right (maybe it should be a 64). The coin has a great strike (not uncommon for 13-D Type 1's) and clean surfaces, but dark brown toning is not going to give the coin bonus points.

    I will say, however, this is a great coin to own raw.
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  • TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭


    << <i>If the coin is as dark as you say it is, 63 sounds about right (maybe it should be a 64). The coin has a great strike (not uncommon for 13-D Type 2's) and clean surfaces, but dark brown toning is not going to give the coin bonus points.

    I will say, however, this is a great coin to own raw. >>



    I have to agree with shamika... The T1 Buffalo is beautiful in hand.. Something about that plastic just makes it blah...
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  • capecape Posts: 1,621 ✭
    guy this is a nice coin without enough luster to get the next grade.
    ed rodrigues
  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    When I get captivated by the beauty of the buffalo nickel I mentally recall Carl Sandburg's poem that he was inspired to pen after viewing the new nickel in 1913. For those who love this series I hope you enjoy reading -it once again.

    A Coin- by Carl Sandburg

    Your western heads here cast on money,
    You two that fade away together,
    partners in the mist.

    Lunging buffalo shoulder,
    Lean Indian face,
    We who come after where you have gone
    Salute your forms on the new nickel.

    You are to us: the past

    Runners on the prairie:

    Good-bye.
    A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

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