Summer totals for Buffalos

[LeoTrench-MAINE]

It's been a banner summer for Buffalos in my part of the world. I just got back into collecting
last April and here are the confirmed totals in my book....

All are readable dates:

1913P T2
1914P
1915D
1916P
1917P
1918P
1919P
1919D
1919S
1920P
1921P
1921S SWEET~~ 5 more weeks in Vinegar!!!
1923S
1924P
1925P
1926P
1927P
1928P
1929P
1930P
1934P
1935P
1935S
1936P
1936D
1937P
1937D
1938D

Need more boxes!!!!

Sorry I haven't been around, Irene messed up the internet.
Hope all are safe!!!

HH

Trench

 

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[azlegends]

Impressive, the buffalo has always been my favorite coin. I was getting about 3 a box for weeks and the last 2 weeks I've only found a handful. Oh well, there's always next box.

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

SWEET FINDS!!!!! huge congrats! Keep it up and hh! [R.I.P. Rich Hartford]

 

[BuffaloBoy]

AWESOME!!! 21-s is an awesome date! hard to get. Hope all is safe from Irene! glad to see you posting again!

 

[captainfwiffo]

You can identify dateless '21 (and '21-S) without vinegar. It's the only date with those three little groves coming out of the top of the band at the top of the braid. 1920 and 1924 have similar details you can identify. I'm sure you also know about type 1.

 

[LeoTrench-MAINE]

Hey, thanks for the die detail info, I really need to get a main guide to Buffalos.
That informations is really amazing, It really shows in my photo that I never noticed.

With alot of dateless coins, I do the vinegar trick and It's like back in the old days
of waiting for a package in the mail....lol

Great tip!!!! Many thanks!!

HH

Trench

 

[captainfwiffo]

It's a great trick particularly for the '21-S which is a key date and nobody knows about these details (also there's no '21-D, so even a fragment of a mint-mark is enough to make a positive ID). You can go through a dealer's "junk box" and pick one out for a 15 cents or whatever they happen to charge for dateless buffaloes.

It also helps to look at a lot of partial dates because sometimes you can identify the date with just a tiny fragment of the date plus the position of the "F". Also, look at "LIBERTY" which is shallower relief before 1916 when there was some minor design changes (also the length of the Indian's nose changes, but it's almost impossible to see that).

I completed an entire set of Buffaloes for less than the cost of an album with a combination of roll hunting, acid-dating, cherry-picking and savvy trading. I have a journal about that on coincommunity.com.

 

[conpewter]

Went through the whole thread captainfwiffo, very cool!