Ever See A Bogus Buffalo Nickel??

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• njcoincrank Posts: 1,066 ✭✭

  June 30, 2012 10:15PM

  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

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• STONE Posts: 15,275 ✭

  June 30, 2012 10:23PM

  
  
  << <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 >>
  
  
  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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• DorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭

  July 1, 2012 12:01AM

  Yuck, thanks for sharing.

  Becky

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2012 5:37AM

  yep, that ones a true wiener yuck

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2012 8:45AM

  What's that made from? It looks like a lead slug.
  
  

  Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!

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• harveypb Posts: 514 ✭

  July 1, 2012 9:32AM

  Looks like lead or a lead alloy to me....

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• SkyMan Posts: 9,515 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2012 9:45AM

  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
  
  U.S. Type Set

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• LincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2012 9:59AM

  No, but I got a lead Jefferson nickel in change once.
  
  -David

  Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns

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• Overdate Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 1, 2012 11:39AM

  Are you sure that's bogus? It's got *way* more detail than my 1926-D!

  My Adolph A. Weinman signature

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• BUFFNIXX Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2012 9:06AM

  Well, what do you think of this buffalo?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
  a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2012 9:09AM

  
  
  << <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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• RichieURich Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2012 9:28AM

  
  
  << <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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• BUFFNIXX Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2012 9:35AM

  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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• RichieURich Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2012 10:20AM

  
  
  << <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.
  

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

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• Overdate Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2012 12:28PM

  
  
  << <i>Well, what do you think of this buffalo?
  
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  It would go nicely with mine!
  
  
  

  My Adolph A. Weinman signature

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,422 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 9, 2012 1:24PM

  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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