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Can this Buffalo be repaired?
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Looks like an easy fix with some duct tape.
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Maybe a dip in acetone.
Why? What's wrong with it?
Nothing a little jb weld cant fix ..
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
I'd go with acetone, it'll clean right up.
Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't an optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.
My mind reader refuses to charge me. . . . . . .
I can't find the thread from a few days ago touting a company's abilities that fix and repair damaged coins. Dang, it.
I was hoping for this when the job is done:
Send it in. I'm really interested to see what the label says....'gun shot'?
Dave
Flex tape should work
I don't like the two rim dings !
I take the bad with the good!
Look how strong LIBERTY is compared to other examples.
(Yes, I actually did purchase this.)
Five cents for a washer, someone must have really been in a bind. Judging by the wear I'd guess it was made sometime in the 30's or 40's.
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Some ingenious farmer needed to fix his machinery so he could feed us. I've dug lots of holed large cents but never a Buff. Ouch! Peace Roy
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Perfect coin for PCGS Restoration service.
All they have to do is remove the air pockets in the middle and at the rims then you are good to go.
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That thing ain't worth a plugged nickel.
As the saying goes, that coin has character!
No.
I have shot coins before, I don’t think it is a gun shot.
But it will be once it's plugged!
Isint that the unique one out the mint? I don't think it will cac either
If it weren't for that rim damage, it may have had a chance!
Holy Buffalo Batman!
At one time it was a very high grade MS coin
Looks like an easy fix. Here is the info you were looking for: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1050115/the-numismatist-and-thedockter/p1
I would send it to them, just to get their response. If you do, please post it here.
Jim
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I think you were robbed. You have like half the coin gone! It’s a 2.5 center now
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Was it self defense?
witty quote goes here
No, target shooting.
Is that PMD ?
Looks like a die crack to me. Should straight-grade.
Lance.
@braddick (Yes, I actually did purchase this.)
I wouldn't have paid the $2.85 shipping not to mention the offer above that.
That's it !!! I'm gonna break out the drill and put a hole in all my ebay coin listings.....slab and all!
Hey! The listing says "free returns" you otta send it back and tell em' it has a hole in it that you didn't see in the listing.
That is just sooo wrong! I'm still laughing as I type this but that is soo wrong...
Why bother? It was probably shot by Annie Oakley and is therefore a collectors’ item as it is.
Remember... if you give into the temptation to clean a coin, you could RUIN its future value. /s
That hole is not from a bullet....However, I would wager someone did it and lied to their buddies about it being one. As to repair, it probably could be done... but why? Cheers, RickO
This forum finally gets the humor it so badly needs.
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Dull drill bit was used. I would have passed on purchasing for that reason.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879--18 April 1955)
No such thing as a dull bullet. I discarded the bullet theory immediately.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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I could repair that Nickel but you might not like the results.
get out your welder...
Judging by the wear I'd guess it was made sometime in the 30's or 40's.
Oh, I got it...
I guess I worded that weirdly, I would guess it was pulled from circulation and made into said washer in the 30's or 40's, maybe even earlier. Not much wear on it.
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Annie was retired in 1923, and died in 1926. Have to find a different "alleged" shooter.
It does open a discussion that few have the opportunity to contemplate as to what might have been
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Annie Oakley? Possible, I suppose. She would have been 63 when it came out of the mint, she died 3 years
later.
Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't an optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.
My mind reader refuses to charge me. . . . . . .
NAH.
That's a three Cent nickel.
Pete
Repair? Sell it on eBay as a 'Major Error Coin with Extreme Eye Appeal'
The coin is dated 1923 so it could have gotten in under the wire. Before the problems the coins looks to be an EF. At any rate I doubt that she stopped shooting guns just because she had retired.