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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BuffaloHunter, post: 260618, member: 5821&quot;]After two years with this coin on my want list, I finally found one that I like.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of us have heard that the number given for mintage of a given date/mintmark is not a reliable factor for determining availability of that coin.&nbsp; The 1918 Philadelphia mint buffalo nickel is a very good example.&nbsp; With a reported mintage of 32,086,314 one would assume that it might be fairly easy to find an uncirculated example.&nbsp; Such is not the case for this coin.&nbsp; From searching for buffalo nickels in MS 63 and above I can tell you, for comparison, that the 1915, 1924 and 1928 (all P mint) were much easier to attain.&nbsp; These three coins come in with mintages of 8 to 9 million or so less than the 1918.&nbsp; In his book titled &quot;The Complete Guide to Buffalo Nickels&quot;, author David W. Lange gives some speculation as to why this year/mintmark is harder to find in the uncirculated grades.&nbsp; And the best sentence from his speculation is &quot;Where did they all go?&quot;.&nbsp; If any of you decide to complete a buffalo nickel collection in mint state and figure you want to start with the &quot;hard&quot; dates, it would be wise to add this one to the list.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the example I acquired about a month ago.&nbsp; Thanks for looking!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x245/BuffaloHunter_photos/1918Buffrev2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x245/BuffaloHunter_photos/1918Buffobv2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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