This one look okay to be 119 years old.

1899 liberty nickel. I wanted to share. My really oldest nickel I own.

 

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My Buffalo nickel doesn't even have a date and this olest one does. Crazy..

 

It is well circulated and no major scrapes or scuff marks.

Buffalo nickels had useless rims because the relief was too high and even went above the rim. (Relief = the degree to which details are raised above the surface and appear 3 dimensional). With the dates and cheekbones being so high, years of circulation wore them down. The Liberty nickel had a much lower relief so fewer are dateless.

 

Wow super amazing find ... I also jst found a buffalo nickel with no date in a bank roll....always amazing what you find I'd you only look lol..... awesum job...and the hunt continues... HappyHunting

 

Did you find it or buy it?

 

I love the V nickels. Once you are subjected to enough Buffalo Nickels you will see that many are "timeless"

 

I had this

 

I had this. I just wanted to share it.

 

Thx 4sharing definitely

 

Nice nickel. My dad had given me about 70% of the coin in the series (he collected when he was younger) in about the same condition as your. I have been working on upgrading them to BU examples, but am storing them side by side in a custom album, as I want to save them this way since he collected them. I really like the series, not no many coins to collect, and most not to expensive....

 

Buffalo Nickels were meant to look nice. The date would wear off long before the design.

Barber's coins were the workhorses of circulation. They weren't meant to look nice, but to circulate. Hence, very few Barber coins were saved.

 

Barber was simply a much better coin designer. Don't get me wrong, I view the buffalo nickel to be one of the top 2 or 3 US coin designs in history for artistry, but barber was far superior in terms of technical functionality as a circulating coin.

 

Now, I'm not calling Barber a plagiarist, but ...

 

My wife gave me this one when we started dating 6 years ago. She was a manager at a supermarket. Found it in a cash regjster. She knew I like coins. I keep it in a bezel and chain!

 

Mirror,mirror on the wall...thanks for the view from the dark side

 

My CRH Barbers since last year

 

These are cool designs. I have a handful of V nickels

 

A little plating and voila...

 

Yeah a 5 gold piece ...

 

Nice '99.