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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26323805, member: 27832&quot;]I feel like dateless Buffalo nickels are an interesting probe into how collectors affect circulating coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>You used to find wheat cents frequently in circulation, but you&#039;d <i>never</i> find an S-VDB, and probably not even a semi-key like 1914-D or 1931-S. Same thing with 1916-D dimes or 1932-D/S quarters - they were much harder to find than their mintages would suggest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pickle a bunch of Buffalos, though, and you&#039;re actually fairly likely to uncover at least a few key dates. After the dates wore off and collectors couldn&#039;t spot them, it seems like they kept circulating in proportion to their actual mintages.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the reasons I&#039;ve asked about restoring dates on silver: there are some really desirable key dates in the Standing Liberty series, and those also lost their dates quickly. If you <i>could</i> restore dates and have them stick, I&#039;ll bet you&#039;d turn up 1921 and 1923-S examples fairly frequently. (I think there was at least one thread here where one of us claimed success, but the TPGs who slab restored-date nickels wouldn&#039;t pass the silver coins.) You can still turn up dateless 1916 SLQs, which were <i>truly</i> rare in circulation, if you know the pick-up points that distinguish them from 1917 Type I examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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