You’ve Never Seen A Buffalo Nickel Like This

I certainly never have and I doubt anyone on CT has either. I would be if they have. You can see it’s extra think and copper on one side, the side that covers the obverse design of a Buffalo Nickel.
The first photo shows the reverse. At least it’s not a 3 legged variety. The second and third photos shows the thickness. The more I enlarged it the blurrier it became but it shows the 3 layers. The last photo also shows the 3 layers on this coin.
It’s the Buffalo Nickel, another layer of a metal and the copper layer. I think the middle layer is hollowed out with copper layer over it. The copper is plastic, not metal. If I hold this with my index finger and thumb and press the copper side in towards the coin, it clicks. Yes, it makes a click noise. I’ve never seen anything like this except in toy clickers. I think it a riot and I can’t believe someone came up with this idea and built it.
Do I have a million dollar coin if I put it on the bay? Lol

 

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Cool! Try Etsy tho, at least 10K. LOL.

 

Looks like a jewelry bezel, but I suppose you’ve already ruled that out.

 

Not a jewelry bezel. The nickel is the exact size of this Buffalo coin and no signs of any bezel marks.

 

Truly an oddity, like you, I'm at a loss why it was created!

 

I like the clicker.

 

You're right, at least 100K on eBay. Just make sure you offer free shipping.

Bruce

 

There is no copper layer.
All nickels (except war nickels) are 75% copper and 25% nickel
that were melted together into an alloy. It is not a clad coin, there's no
layers. My point is that since it can't be a copper layer, you have to look
for another reasonable explanation.

 

To me the clicking sound implies that there’s a latch inside and it’s supposed to flip open. So maybe the latch or whatever is frozen or broken. It seems like it’s some sort of locket or magicians coin. I wonder if spraying some liquid wrench type stuff in there would free it up.

 

Good idea. Thank you.

 

I would strongly suggest that you send it to the Coin Forensics Foundation for further analysis.