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Ever See A Bogus Buffalo Nickel??

harveypbharveypb Posts: 514 ✭
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    njcoincranknjcoincrank Posts: 1,066 ✭✭
    Yes, I collect them. I have several different dates as well as related material. I even have a hobo nickel carved on one. They are way cool.

    Yors is one of the crudest I have seen to date.

    njcc
    www.numismaticamericana.com
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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭


    << <i>Yes, I collect them. I have several different dates as well as related material. I even have a hobo nickel carved on one. They are way cool.

    Yors is one of the crudest I have seen to date.

    njcc >>


    image with all of the above...except I don't have a hobo carved example - which I suspect would be difficult to identify as such!
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    DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Yuck, thanks for sharing.
    Becky
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    yep, that ones a true wiener image yuck
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    What's that made from? It looks like a lead slug.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
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    harveypbharveypb Posts: 514 ✭
    Looks like lead or a lead alloy to me....
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    SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't collect them, but I do have one. A person at my local coin club saw a grouping of fake Buffernicks on fleaBay and bought them for a song. He then gave each member of the club one of the bogus coins.
    Toned Franklins

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    LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    No, but I got a lead Jefferson nickel in change once.

    -David
    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns
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    OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you sure that's bogus? It's got *way* more detail than my 1926-D! image

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    BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, what do you think of this buffalo?

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    Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
    a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Well, what do you think of this buffalo?

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    Awesome! I want it!


    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
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    RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,652 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Well, what do you think of this buffalo?

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    Awesome! I want it! >>



    Ditto!

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

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    BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guys -- for all the world this coin looks real. Grade is about VF-XF and coin has been circulated for a while.
    I cannot see any monkey shines about the date area so this does not appear to have been a date alteration.
    One of my friends pointed out that the style of the 2's is of a date later than than 1922. Still quite a
    conversation piece no matter how you slice it.
    buffnixx
    Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
    a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
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    RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,652 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Guys -- for all the world this coin looks real. Grade is about VF-XF and coin has been circulated for a while.
    I cannot see any monkey shines about the date area so this does not appear to have been a date alteration.
    One of my friends pointed out that the style of the 2's is of a date later than than 1922. Still quite a
    conversation piece no matter how you slice it.
    buffnixx >>



    Very cool coin to say the least. I have a similar unusual Buffalo nickel; it appears to be a 1930-D.
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    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

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    OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,320 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Well, what do you think of this buffalo?

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    It would go nicely with mine! image

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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,802 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I recently bought a double struck contemporary counterfeit that was good enough to have previously traded as authentic.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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