Buffalo Nickels and Standing Liberty Quarters.

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keets
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These two designs came about shortly after the Renaissance of American coinage, both lovely designs that are popular and eagerly collected. Does any one have a plausible explanation as to why more care wasn't taken when the transfer from art to coin was made?? In terms of date-wear these have to be some of the worst coins in our History, and they were issued and circulating during a time when the Nation was really active in an economic sense.

Al H.

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  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The nickel's are at least the same alloy. More than I can say for the rest of the coinage. I love the buffalo nickels and the SLQ . I grew up with Buffs in my pocket. It's a shame is all I can say. The designs are not nice at all and it appears as they will never get back to beautiful coin designs of the past.

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  • keets
    keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Joe, you missed my point by an embarrassingly long distance. what I am wondering is why the date area on the Buffalo Nickel and SLQ wasn't given more attention so as to wear evenly with the rest of the coin.

  • Moldnut
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    Im sure a few years had passed before the date wore off. Corrections were then made would be my guess.

    Derek

    EAC 6024
  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @keets said:
    Joe, you missed my point by an embarrassingly long distance. what I am wondering is why the date area on the Buffalo Nickel and SLQ wasn't given more attention so as to wear evenly with the rest of the coin.

    Oh well.

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @keets
    I understood your question and now I need to think about why they designed the dates in that manner. ? On the one hand, looking at them as collectibles today it is quite annoying that the dates are gone but perhaps no thought was given to that aspect of the design because at the time they were just 'money'. ?

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    PS They are wonderful, artful, thought invoking designs. :smile:

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  • dbldie55
    dbldie55 Posts: 7,753 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not sure that was even a consideration of the design.

    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • grip
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    @dbldie55 said:
    Not sure that was even a consideration of the design.

    This.

  • KollectorKing
    KollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • ernie11
    ernie11 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    At first, I thought it was naiveté on the Mint's part to put the dates on such a high, exposed area of the coin, but the Mint designers were experts, they must've known the dates would wear down. Maybe they didn't care until it actually started happening.

    There is one back-handed advantage to the Mint doing this - by having the dates wear off they made early Buff's and SLQ's pre-1925 much scarcer and more collectible for the coins that do have visible dates.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My personal belief is that wear was not a consideration at that time... and even if thought of, was discarded as irrelevant.... Cheers, RickO

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