Last night's acquisition

As promised, here are some pics. It has been professionally cleaned, but, I kinda figured that from the toning, which is now gone. For what I paid, it was worth it, as the coin is AU55 or better. Nice die crack at the date. Was probably late die state.

 

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I like it

 

I'm with you on this (although, I would have left out the guess). We collect because we collect, & it gives us enjoyment & we share with others who equally enjoy. I'm getting fed up with people who can't keep totally different concepts separated: "Oh, it's raining out, now I can't go to the store!!!" They are totally unrelated. One's ability or desire to collect has absolutely nothing to do with his perceived concept of the current state of human affairs. There, had my say!

 

Ditto!

 

A little strong...inflation affects many things, but my thought is that true collectibles will suffer less than "commodities" such as melt value silver, gold and platinum.

 

Buffalo nickels are notoriously difficult for most to grade and with many mints, over several years, having poor or weak strikes, it makes it doubly so, especially from photos.
Seeing the disparities between the obverse and reverse would lead one to believe the obverse was struck with a severely worn die while the reverse was stuck with a recent die, but I can find no written material indicating old and new dies were mixed. When one die was replaced, both dies were usually replaced. Someone correct me if I am wrong. So the question of die pressure adjustment needs to be considered. The San Fransisco mint has a record of decent business strikes for the Type II 1913 Buffalo, so it has me baffled how the obverse and reverse could be so different.
Could it be that the reverse Type II die was used with a worn Type I obverse die just as the design change was made? If anyone out there has more information on this, please posted it here.

 

I think i just read into his post wrong. Somedays I just get sorta on pins and needles. I need to leave work at work.

 

I read something that said the San Francisco mint was still kind of experimenting with nickels as they had only struck the 1912-S Liberty nickel there. I've seen many Buffalos with strong obverses w/ weak reverses and vice versa.