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Blue Moon Coins wants to hear the history of “black diamond”

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Here at Blue Moon Coins we are gathering information to share about the history of the Black Diamond and would like some help from the experts on this U.S. coin forum.

Black Diamond

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  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,316 ✭✭✭✭
    first of all, welcome!

    second, Black Diamond was the bison that lived captive at the Bronx Zoo and served as the model for the "Buffalo" Nickel (that's about all i know)





    but let's clear the air here.........arent you the guys that had the hot girls in the Ebay ads???

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  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,316 ✭✭✭✭
    in fact, is this Shawna!!


    Link to what i'm talking about......


    (scroll down for pics)


    do a search for 'blue moon' on this forum --- you'll be glad you did

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  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    The name Black Diamond was given to the animal while it performed under a circus top. It's transfer to a New York City zoo gave Fraser the chance to view and sketch it. Black Diamond met an unusual end by being sold to a restauranteur and at the age of 22 wound up as buffalo steak. It is hoped that his aged spirit gained revenge by enforcing a touch of indigestion to anyone who had the temerity to pay for their dinner with a buffalo nickel. (Lee Martin from Coin Bulletin page 5 Feb.1967)

    There is a better account and history of the animal in Annette R. Cohens book "The Buffalo Nickel" but I don't have time to copy at this time and will do so later if no one else does~ don-Gemini
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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Inquiring minds wanna know what Shawna's fate was? She sure looked better in their ads on eBay than Kenny does.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Buy a copy of "Renaissance of American Coinage 1909-1915." The story is there including photos and info direct from the bison's mouth.
  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,316 ✭✭✭✭
    >>Buy a copy of "Renaissance of American Coinage 1909-1915." The story is there including photos and info direct from the bison's mouth.>>



    a priceless tome if ever there was, but do you cover Shawna's descent from numismatics?!?

    i must find out what happened to her!!

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  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    welcome to the boards

    what can you tell us abut the empty slab posted?

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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    a priceless tome if ever there was, but do you cover Shawna's descent from numismatics?!?

    Sorry, Shawna is not included with the book - or in the book.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,074 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>welcome to the boards

    what can you tell us abut the empty slab posted?

    image >>



    He died....
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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe Shawna got the coin in the settlement.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Bison "pies" from the Great Plains? A bit in each slab ?
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    After Black diamonds death, he was butchered and the steaks were sold for consumption.image
  • HotfootspinHotfootspin Posts: 430 ✭✭
    wikipedia

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  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BLUEMOONCOINS........


    Alrightimage
    Have a nice day
  • PawPaulPawPaul Posts: 5,845 ✭
    BLUEMOONCOINS ?


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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,943 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>BLUEMOONCOINS........


    Alrightimage >>



    Are they still in business? Haven't heard much about them lately. They they used to be a regular topic here a few years ago.

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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Buy a copy of "Renaissance of American Coinage 1909-1915." The story is there including photos and info direct from the bison's mouth. >>




    Isn't this the book he was reading in all of those eBay ads? I guess he never did finish it....



    Sean Reynolds
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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,129 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll add my image.


    I hope we don't scare off this month's new member. image

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  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,316 ✭✭✭✭
    the OP might appreciate this thread from the currency boards

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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Interesting currency thread, but it's not correct.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,943 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting currency thread, but it's not correct. >>



    Agree. Different buffalo on the 1901 $10 bill. I read somewhere that this buffalo's name was Pablo.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,056 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Buy a copy of "Renaissance of American Coinage 1909-1915." The story is there including photos and info direct from the bison's mouth. >>




    Isn't this the book he was reading in all of those eBay ads? I guess he never did finish it....



    Sean Reynolds >>



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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Although Black Diamond is no longer with us, his offspring like Blue Spade here, still carry on his legacy, albeit with a little bit more horn.
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