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A new Buff for my herd

crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I recently picked this 14-s buffalo nickel up for my collection. Graded by pcgs as a 64 but I have my own ideas about this one due to it's eye appeal.
Thanks for looking and comments are welcome as always.
Happy hunting, Joe


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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,723 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OH MY GOODNESS, Joe!!

    That one is simply off the charts.

    Desirable early date with spectacular eye appeal.

    Very well done, my friend!!!

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Color notwithstanding, the coin is not struck well in the peripheries and central obverse. 1914-S actually is a better struck San Francisco nickel.

    Your coin just happened to become nicely toned.

    The 1914-S Buff has always lived in the shadows of the 1914-D. The date alone conjures up the famous Lincoln Cent.

    Strangely enough, i1914-S is much better struck overall.

    Pete

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks, Pete.
    I generally go for the eye appeal most of the time. No question the coin is lacking in the strike department but I could not overlook the outstanding eye appeal. It does have vibrant colors so the purchase was made.

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I get where you're coming from, Joe. That was the purpose of my post.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gorgeous, explicit color of toning on both obverse and reverse. I Love it Joe. Like your complete herd.
    Jim


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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Beautiful coin... I'd take it any day of the week !!!

  • bobsrbobsr Posts: 392 ✭✭✭✭

    If Eye appeal was the only grading criteria that coin would be an MS 68/69. A really beautiful work of art. Even the light striking gives it a plush smooth appearance that overall compliments the coin. Congratulations and good eye.
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  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,701 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh my, my shorts now look like I hit a dear. Very sweet Joe!!!

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  • RockyMtnProspectorRockyMtnProspector Posts: 754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I always look forward to these new buff for your herd posts, as the results are exquisite. Great look on that coin!

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very attractive Buff.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am totally MESMERIZED

    @crazyhounddog said:

  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 25, 2018 11:37PM

    I suspect the photo has been juiced a bit, but regardless that's one attractive coin and would have no problem paying a premium to the 64 grade! Thanks for sharing....Mike

    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • KudbegudKudbegud Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A CAC candidate?


  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, "awesome", congratulations !!!

    Timbuk3
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You certainly are consistent... and you continually find these extreme tarnish nickels... I have said before, I have loads of Buffs...and none have tarnished at all ... I have no idea what kind of environment does that....Cheers, RickO

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,183 ✭✭✭✭✭

    thats a way cool pick up, wtg

  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MikeInFL said:
    I suspect the photo has been juiced a bit, but regardless that's one attractive coin and would have no problem paying a premium to the 64 grade! Thanks for sharing....Mike

    You'd be dead wrong.

    I think there is probably a quantifier for some silly amount of buffaloes where "herd" no longer justifies the meaning.

    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MikeInFL said:
    I suspect the photo has been juiced a bit, but regardless that's one attractive coin and would have no problem paying a premium to the 64 grade! Thanks for sharing....Mike

    NOT juiced!

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • dedalus_57645dedalus_57645 Posts: 22 ✭✭

    Both sides gorgeous, but the reverse is truly outstanding.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice!

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,199 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kudbegud said:
    A CAC candidate?

    CAC is pretty picky on colored buffs since there is a dealer who has bragged in the past that he can get his colored ‘work’ past the TPGs

    Early Dollar Set
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    You certainly are consistent... and you continually find these extreme tarnish nickels... I have said before, I have loads of Buffs...and none have tarnished at all ... I have no idea what kind of environment does that....Cheers, RickO

    Are you saying that Joe is environmentally tarnished?

    Pete

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, since he picked these up elsewhere, likely JOE is not environmentally tarnished... just well aged.. :D:D like my herd of Buffs... Cheers, RickO

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m tarnished, my dogs are tarnished and my coins are tarnished. But it all naturally happened.
    Carry on :)

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 26, 2018 11:18AM

    @ricko said:
    Well, since he picked these up elsewhere, likely JOE is not environmentally tarnished... just well aged.. :D:D like my herd of Buffs... Cheers, RickO

    So you can’t understand how tarnish happens. Now I’ve been a member of this board for many years and I know for sure you have too, Ricko, so I’m not exactly sure how you missed it. I’m a huge fan of naturally toned buffalo nickels.
    Let me explain to you how this happens. You must want to know after all of these years not knowing for sure. So here it goes. It’s natures way :D
    Honestly, suffer oxide, that most all coin albums have been treated with so the cardboard does not decompose so quickly has a reaction with the alloy of the material the coins are made of. You’ll find this , sulfur oxide, on paper too. I find this natural accourance attactive. So before youall go jumping, Joe, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one that happens to find them pretty.
    Furthermore, I tend to look at a coin with no tarnish as suspicious, cleaned, dipped.
    Happy hunting, Joe

    Edited to say your a funny guy, Ricko, and I look at you as my friend. So this is kinda chucking it back atcha. :D

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Age has one true benefit, it ususally beats the alternative, as does a nicely toned coin beat a ricko coin(no offense-different strokes).


    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

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  • coastalpride85coastalpride85 Posts: 376 ✭✭✭

    That is one gorgeous coin! Congrats on the addition.

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,682 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 26, 2018 11:28AM

    To add to Joe's comments about cardboard albums, from my own experiences...

    I also think the surface and/or condition of the coin itself plays a role.
    I have an old blue Whitman album that I filled with many XF-MS buffs. Some of these toned attractively, some were briefly attractive and then turned dull brown, and others never toned at all.
    Further, I have removed coins from 'holes' that had previously toned nickels attractively, and inserted new coins, only to have nothing happen.
    I later acquired an old National album with Jeff nickels in it....the silver war nickels were all boldly toned, as well as a few of the standard composition pieces, but not many.

    In any event, I think it takes a special combination of pristine surfaces, sulfur, atmospheric conditions, and time, to produce these brilliantly colored nickels, which may be why there aren't many around - treasure them!

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @crazyhounddog .... :D:D So THAT'S how it happens..... OK... I buy that ... of course, I must have defective albums.... I suspected that... got them at a B&M at a good price.... He must have sucked all the sulfur oxide out and saved it for his own coins... :D;) Thank you for your most informative instruction.. :D:D Cheers, RickO

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @crazyhounddog .... :D:D So THAT'S how it happens..... OK... I buy that ... of course, I must have defective albums.... I suspected that... got them at a B&M at a good price.... He must have sucked all the sulfur oxide out and saved it for his own coins... :D;) Thank you for your most informative instruction.. :D:D Cheers, RickO

    If you need anymore help just reach out to me. I'm here for you :D

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    You certainly are consistent... and you continually find these extreme tarnish nickels... I have said before, I have loads of Buffs...and none have tarnished at all ... I have no idea what kind of environment does that....Cheers, RickO

    Are you saying that Joe is environmentally tarnished?

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,756 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a super nice one, congrats!

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  • coastalpride85coastalpride85 Posts: 376 ✭✭✭

    That is one gorgeous coin! Congrats on the addition.

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another beautiful Buffalo Joe. <3

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's one of the cool coins you just look at to be LOOKING at. :)

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