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Do Buffs come blah?
lsica
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I've got my eye on some MS stabbed early Buffs on the 'Bay, but a lot of the sellers pics look....well....really blah. Nary a hint of luster. Do some early MS Buffs really come with such "muted" (ahem) luster, or could it be an imaging problem?
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Ha k tnx
If in doubt ... pass.
Ya I know. I guess I was surprised at just how dull they seemed to come
Every coin comes blah. Look for the nice ones.
That, and not every photo represents the coin well.
If a coin you are interested in is in a Gold Shield PCGS holder, you can look up the Trueview (most have them now)
They can come with poor luster in MS grades, but a lot of folks are also a bit challenged when it comes to imaging them. Some early Buffs have great luster and if looking for type, or just to buy a few, I would search them out.
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There are some very nice ones out there. There are also plenty of not so nice ones.
For type I would probably suggest 1913-D T1, and 1916 or 17
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Excellent choices! The 1913-D Type 1 really is a better choice for anyone building a Type Set. I don't know what happened with the Type 2, it's still a nice coin,although pricey.
The 1916 Buff is the first year with the revised dies, and the difference shows. The bigger 6 in the date was intentional, the Mint trying to alleviate the amount of no date specimens.
Nothing worked, and we as collectors are left with a myriad of partial dates.
So, really, their efforts were "partially" successful.
Pete
They should have changed the date on the buffs to be incused. Would have solved the problem.
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It depends on what you call, blah. All series of coins has blah coins. What you need to do is take your time and find the ones that are beautiful for everything you like. Buffalo nickels I find are the most beautiful US coin ever struck. That’s why I’ve collected them all my life.
Very well said and I could not agree more!
Now that I am home on my computer I can post this playlist of the coins in my Buffalo Nickel date set. Just short videos of obverse and reverse moving a light around to try to show luster. The 1926 is about to be replaced.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL6F5IzkmpPbQDyebl89WpEZRDuu-ojHIe
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Buff nickels often come gray and without luster....They were a highly used coin in commerce. Sure, as @crazyhounddog says (and shows) there are also great ones that have been preserved. The difference will be, obviously, cost. Good luck, Cheers, RickO
Definitely tooled.
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There are also years where the minting process was not well executed and "mint state coins" are easy to confuse for lightly worn coins, just because the strike is garbage.
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That is a series I am bound to return to in time out of nostalgia. Many of us avidly collected them from pocket change as kids. Not all of them needed nic-a-date. The design is interesting in that even with some loss of detail in hubbing or striking, there is just so much still happening on that coin. Both sides were designed with incredibly violable detail. It is a plain attractive design.