I am offically packing my remaining buffalo nickel sets into a box and storing them for twenty years or so. My last sale on E-bay went for $3.80 for the box. Pathetic to say the least. I'll eat the loss, al-beit not a tremendous punch in the gut, but I'm not selling any more. I think I will take some and give them away as gifts and such, maybe to some perspective younger collecters to encourage them into the hobby.:vanish:
Not sure why many seemed to be disinterested... this has always been one of my favorite coins, right behind walking liberties and Franklins. Lately though I've been more interested in collecting various types of coins rather than various dates of a given type.
I'm not an ebay person because of things like that. If you are just interested in selling coins, why not go to a coin show or try the PCGS web site for buying and selling coins. Ebay is just to weird for me. I hear stories of a piece of cake or something selling for hundreds or thousands and things that are really valuable selling for practically nothing. Every once in a while Jay Leno shows stupid things on ebay.
Can I ask if you opend the sale up to a worldwide audience? I have found that a lot of sellers have problems with selling overseas & therfore loose out on potential customers. I am based in the UK and bid regular on US items when I am allowed to. De Orc :kewl:
The reason people aren't paying the prices are because maybe they are reseraching and learning that it was hype to begin with. Sorry to hear you took a loss....I know no one likes to do that. Speedy
Had you researched this issue before it became such a topic of discussion, you would have found a number of people who said this is exactly what would happen after the close of the minting of the coin. So it should have been expected. Now your idea of using them as gifts etc. is an excellent one and should give you at least a little pleasure seeing the faces of those receiving the gifts. Resign your self that in the short run, thanks and a hand shale is about all you will be getting for that series of nickel. Sorry!:kewl:
The UK? Where is that? Is it a US colony? Just kidding. The Buffalo Nickels sell for a lot of money around my parts of the world at coin shows. Don't know if there are coin shows in the UK (wherever that is). We have international coin shows around here and it is considered a sin if someone tried to display US coins. Kind of weird people there. At our normal coin shows around here there are primarily US coins but also some coins from other countries. We have a coin show almost every weekend in the area, flea markets with numerous coin dealers and stores that also have coin shops or departments. So there are lots of places where Buffalo Nickels are bought and sold. If you like them so much that you started to collect them in the first place, I would suggest you do not stop collecting them but just move to a place here like Chicago, Illinois. Not sure but isn't the UK a Suburb of Chicago?
No Carl it is'nt but there again as a colonial one must forgive you your lack of geographical knowlage (just kidding) perhaps you should ask your mummy Kiss De Orc :hug:
can you believe it? i still need 100 to 200 roll of buffalo nickels. i don't have any u.s.mint wrapped rolls. if people want to take a loss. then sell it to me.
OK all kidding aside instead of giving up on a great coin because of that ebay stuff, why not try to enhance your collection or trade it off for something else. If you'll notice there is available right here a forum called World & Achient coins forum. Also on the PCGS web site there is the same thing. I think you'll find people there a much better, more intelligent, friendlier and even more honest than the ebay type. You could actually suggest to them to trade some of the types of coins easily available to you that are not common here for Buffalo Nickels. Just to play safe you may want to go to the Whitman web site and order a Red Book unless they have them over there. This would give you a rough idea of the prices of the Nickels you may want and get you a good grounds of values for such possilbe trades. Although I am not a foreign coin colllector as a rule I've got many friends from places I've worked that when I told them I collect coins they bombarded me with coins from their countries. I've got several boxes full of them and probably half I don't even know what country they are from. Just trying to say that people around here are and can be very helpful if you want to continue your Buffalo Nickel collection. Good Luck.
Seeing some confussion here between Bison nickels (2005) and Buffalo/Indian Head nickels (1913 - 1938). Rolls of Buffalo nickels are still doing well. US Mint Rolls of the recent Bison nickels have, as ussaty painfully shared, dropped like a rock.
From my own experience on Ebay I dont find many fools in the coin section, for deals you really have to search.
lawdogct, it took me a couple minutes to figure out that I think people are talking about 2005 Bison nickels...yes, very different from what I think of as Buffalo nickels. But yes, many of these types of things happen where something is hyped up then comes back down to reality once everyone figures out that there are billions of them.
