CoinTalk Friends (CTF) Giveaway #3 (four drawings)

@Chris B. Congrat's on your win! Enjoy the book.

 

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Me likes! I have one already but definitely have room for one more.
Thank You @BuffaloHunter for your donation!

 

I want this prize.
Here is one of my Buffalos.

 

I would like to enter for this prize. Thank you @BuffaloHunter and @lordmarcovan!
I collect type coins, but the buffalo nickel is the only coin I collect by date. It has been my favorite design since I started collecting at 8 years old. I remember how excited I was when the mint released the bison design in 2005. My dad was stationed in Stuttgart at the time and the banks on base did not seem to handle a lot of change. My dad did manage to pick some rolls up for me and I carefully hoarded every bison nickel I found. When my dad was transferred to Fort Campbell in 2007, I was able to start looking through actual boxes of nickels and found my first bonified buffalo nickel. That was quite a day! That began my addiction for coin roll hunting. I loved finding silver, but buffalo nickels (even the dateless ones) always took the cake.

 

Please count me in for this round. What a gorgeous nickel! I have a folder of just Buffalo nickels found in circulation. Most are low grade or nic-a-dated. But definitely some low mintage examples.
Thank you @BuffaloHunter for donating and @lordmarcovan for running this contest.

 

That is a gorgeous nickel, and such a high grade, so, yeah, I'm in for this one.

One fun fact about this issue is that this was the last year a buffalo nickel was made and the only year where both the (old) Buffalo Nickels and the (new) Jefferson Nickels were minted, and both were minted in large quantities. There were over 7 million 1938D buffalos minted (in 1938, Denver was the only mint to produce the last Buffalo nickels) and over 5 million 1938D Jeffies that year. Very unlike 1913 which was the year the Buffalos first made their appearance (nearly 31 mil Philadelphia minted ones, over 5 mil Denver ones and over 2 mil San Francisco ones) and when there only 5 known to exist (all P minted) of the previous design nickels (liberty head ones), so there was in the recent history for memory of many people no reason to hoard an initial issue of a coin or last issue of a coin en masse. But when the Jeffies did come out, the most recent releases of the 1938 D nickels did get hoarded to a larger extent than would normally be done. You had two issues of different coin designs in one year, and the 1938 D Buffalos were last minted in April 1938, around the time of the deadline for the Jefferson designs to be submitted that year. Also, the public was aware that when the design approval for a new coin was selected, it also would be issued that year, and they were aware of this early enough into the year that coins minted through April, once they found their way into circulation in rolls or in regular trade for people, they were kept and then when the Jefferson ones were put in circulation in mid November 1938, those also started being kept by individuals or hoarded in rolls. Many when they were pulled from the circulation process did not get enough wear on them to be circulated in grade.
(hopefully I made no typos on this one with facts. I did try to proof what I wrote here. I used Google for the facts while typing rather than actually looking at the red book)

 

would love to enter contest to have a chance at winning this beautiful coin!

 

I've been meaning to add a high-grade Buffalo to my slabbed type set for a while now, but haven't gotten one yet, so this drawing is perfect for me. Big thanks to @BuffaloHunter for the amazing giveaway and @lordmarcovan for hosting!

Also, if anyone has one, I'm looking to purchase a 1922 buffalo 5c for my date/mint set, as I can't seem to find one at my LCS...

 

Count me in! I enjoy collecting Buffalo nickels and they are probably the most asked about coin when talking with family.

 

Count me in for this one, I just bought more buffalos but this one's the prettiest of them all! Thanks for the donation @BuffaloHunter !

 

Entry Post: that is the purdiest nickels that I have seen all week. Thank you @BuffaloHunter and @lordmarcovan for the prize and the contest.

 

Nice looking Buffalo. It would fit in nicely with my small heard of 38D's
Here is one of my OMM. OMM-002 FS-512

 

Enter me please for the 1938-D.
Such a great example of a buffalo nickel!

Thank you @BuffaloHunter and @lordmarcovan
for the contest.

I thought I would share these photos of a 1923 Buffalo Nickel. It is cleaned, but a nice coin.

 

To those members of the community who gave me their entries I send out a big thank you. And to Dano whose entry sealed the deal, thank you thank you. You can all rest assured that this volume will find a special place in my library.

Cheers y'all,

Tall Paul

 

I would like to designate Dano as my proxy if my number is drawn.

 

Please count me in on this! I've got some nice buffalo nickels, but none of the graded, and certainly not at this level if they were to actually get graded. It would be the prime high grade example of my tiny collection!

 

I'm in for this drawing. Here is the only buffalo I have. Thank you sir, may I have another?

 

I am in for that Bison. I don't have any graded that high, in fact I don't have any graded at all!