First Buffalo Nickle

ZumbroKid · Sep 17, 2005

I found my first buffalo nickle, the date is a little hard to read, so i enlarged the photo. This is the oldest coin i have found so far. Normally i just get the common clad stuff. No rings or other jewerly pieces yet either. As you can tell i'm not too good with my pictures yet. But that will come in time.

bk · Sep 17, 2005

Thats one of those rare nickels where the Indian head faces left instead of right. Liberty is backwards too. Better have a dealer appraise it. The buffalo is probably upside down too.

WeaponsUSMC · Sep 17, 2005

Very nice, I've found rings (silver) and silver coins of todays design but have yet to find an American coin of earlier design. Great find.

ZumbroKid · Sep 17, 2005

bk, you think it could really be so?

bk · Sep 17, 2005

No kid, I'm just giving you a bad time. Actually I like how nice the coin came out. Mine are usually corroded and red colored.

MalteseFalcon · Sep 17, 2005

Better?

ZumbroKid · Sep 17, 2005

OH! Thank you so much. I am rather new to this as i have said. Imagine blotching my first photo post so badly.

tsgman · Sep 17, 2005

Nice find, I have yet to find a buffalo nickle. I dont seem to find that many with my xlt but I have Tesoro Toltec that is excellent on
nickles. But not to great on depth.

Bavaria Mike · Sep 18, 2005

Congrats on the Buffalo! HH, Mike

birdman · Sep 18, 2005

Really cool find! I have yet to find one. :-[

hollowpointred · Sep 18, 2005

thats really nice nickel! like bk said mine came out of the ground all red and brown and ugly looking. did you clean it somehow or did it come out of the ground like that? nice find!!

ZumbroKid · Sep 18, 2005

It came out of the ground like that. But i do not know what is up. The coin is darker than in the picture. I have to figure how to use the camera better.

DugHoles · Sep 18, 2005

Congrats on your first Buffalo. Keep on swingin.......

GL & HH,

DugHoles

JerV3 · Sep 19, 2005

Congrats on your first buffalo. At first glance without reading any post I immediately said there is something wrong with that nickle. It's facing the wrong way. I have found enough of them to know. But I guess you just had something messed up with the pics.

HH Jer

dudes2112 · Sep 19, 2005

Wow, that's a really nice one from the ground. Mine looked like what everyone else is saying, red and chewed up.

Dudes

mchamby · Sep 19, 2005

That is a nice Buffalo, it's a whole lot prettier than the brick colored ones I 've taken out of the ground but a buffalo is a buffalo and I'm not going to complain. Happy Hunting to you.

Mchamby