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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2658938, member: 19250&quot;]James Fraser the designer of the Buffalo&nbsp; nickel gave us a timeless design. He also gave the U.S. mint a run for the money as his design was timeless but in the beginning&nbsp; the design caused many issues . The Coin design as well as the blanks jamming&nbsp; up in the coining process caused Charles Barber&nbsp; to write the director of the mint. { George&nbsp; E. Roberts}</p><p>The coining room were only able to get 1/3 of the number&nbsp; of&nbsp; pieces&nbsp; per die pair.</p><p>It was causing mint workers&nbsp; to work over time trying to meet production schedules.</p><p>This was caused by the design and shape of the dies.</p><p>The dies were so convex that if the feed of the blank skips,</p><p>The dies come together . The left the strikes to be very worn looking. As well as causing the dies to wear out at an alarming&nbsp; rate.</p><p>Just like&nbsp; the shield nickel being struck in a extremely&nbsp; harder metal ,compared&nbsp; to a silver alloy. The Buffalo&nbsp; nickel design though timeless was very hard to get a full production run.</p><p>Other issues were the the words &quot;Five Cents&quot; as well as the &quot;date&quot;,&nbsp; sat so high on the design that a change had to be made or they would of worn out at an excessive&nbsp; rate.</p><p>Thus the reasons for a design&nbsp; change from type 1 to type 2.</p><p>Die life of the type 1 Buffalo 150,168 strikes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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