1913 buffalo nickel pattern to be auctioned by Heritage in April of next year.

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• BUFFNIXX Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 7:30AM edited September 12, 2020 7:33AM

  Ops! forgot the reverse! I mainly posted this so that you are aware that there are buffalo nickel patterns out
  there that might be almost, but not quite, identical to the regular adopted design.
  

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 8:00AM

  Thank you... that is interesting... but now I have to add another item to my list for searching my 'hoard' of Buffs some winter day.... Cheers, RickO

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 8:08AM edited September 12, 2020 8:08AM

  @BUFFNIXX said:
  1913 type one raised ground pattern buffalo nickel to be auctioned off by Heritage starting next April.

  This is Pollock-2025, and Judd-1950. Slabbed proof-66 by pcgs. Look at how much it resembles the regular adopted design.

  Date is a bit different and no initial under the date. ON the obverse the rim is much thicker below the date. And the 3 in the date is a bit different in style. But overall I could see how this could be confused with a non pattern type one coin.

  Somewhere out there one may be hiding in some dealers cabinet or box masquerading as a regular business strike. I think one like this sold for almost a hundred K a few years ago

  Amazing and beautiful coin!

  I would love to cherry pick on of these.

  Thanks for sharing it!

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• BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 11:31AM

  

  This one has no designer's initial and a curved top 3.

  Pete

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• BUFFNIXX Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 12:02PM

  @BuffaloIronTail said:
  

  This one has no designer's initial and a curved top 3.

  Pete

  Pete -- can you post a picture of the reverse too?

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• koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 12:45PM edited September 12, 2020 12:47PM

  Here is a pattern (I don't know the number) with a round top "3." This was hand engraved into the die.

  

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 1:06PM

  Nice to know.

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,282 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 3:44PM

  @koynekwest said:
  Here is a pattern (I don't know the number) with a round top "3." This was hand engraved into the die.

  

  Cool

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• koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 3:46PM

  I believe the round-top 3 is the rarest of all the pattern Buffs. It's a good thing this wasn't adopted as the design-the date would have worn off instantly!

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• koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 12, 2020 9:02PM

  I'm tracking that pattern. The last one, in a lower grade, sold for $94,000 in April of 2016. It was a PR63 described as cleaned.

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• BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 13, 2020 8:33AM

  @BUFFNIXX said:

  @BuffaloIronTail said:
  

  This one has no designer's initial and a curved top 3.

  Pete

  Pete -- can you post a picture of the reverse too?

  I tried to delete the post. The coin I posted does not have a curved top 3. Ron's pic is the correct image.

  Silly me.

  Pete

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• BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 13, 2020 8:37AM

  @BUFFNIXX said:

  @BuffaloIronTail said:
  

  This one has no designer's initial and a curved top 3.

  Pete

  Pete -- can you post a picture of the reverse too?

  I don't have one. I don't think the place where I got the pic actually had a reverse shot.

  Pete

  "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon

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