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Originally Posted by ratinox
Nope, not a Buffalo (or Indian Head) nickel. In fact, it's not a nickel (5 cent piece) at all. You can tell by the ridges around the edge of the coin. US nickels have always had smooth edges.
That's a Gold Buffalo, a gold bullion coin. Okay, it's a picture of a Gold Buffalo.  |
Very good. The Indian Head nickel was silverish, like all, or almost all coins, are, and this one was gold. I didn't think about that. I thought that tubemonkey was being a wise guy when he put that up; instead, he put the image of something that's probably very valuable!
I haven't seen an Indian Head nickel in years and years. There's supposed to be a collection at my mother's house that our family started and worked on in the 1960's. I may not have seen one since then. I guess that the collection's still there and either my sister or I will inherit it when my mother passes on. At the time that we were collecting them, some of them weren't worth much more than . . . a regular nickel! Of course, there were some that were worth a lot more than that. We did the same thing with mercury dimes.