Liberty End / Old Buffalo Nickel Rolls 40 Unsearched Nickels US Indian Head

Description

Sale = 1 Roll of Buffalo Nickels with (1) Liberty Nickel on End
Full Date & Partial Date Nickels (All Readable)
Item Details
Coins:
Buffalo Nickel Rolls - Full Dates & Partial Dates (1913-1938) with (1) Liberty Nickel on the end
Dates:  Buffalo Nickels: Mostly 20's and 30's / Liberty Nickels: 1893-1913
We have just purchased a bundle of 25,000 Buffalo Nickels.  We have scanned over 500 Nickels and have seen visible dates on all of them.  They seem to be partial and full date Nickels mostly in 1920's and 1930's.  We have seen a few Buffalo Nickel Mint Marks and Liberty Nickels mixed in.
Many of our clients have asked for Liberty Nickels so we have hand selected the rolls that have one visible and offering them separately.
After we rolled the nickels up, w
e sampled 5 rolls and here is what we found:
Roll 1:
20 Full Date / 20 Partial Date (2 Liberty Nickels)
Roll 2:
19 Full Date / 21 Partial Date (2 Liberty Nickels)
Roll 3:
18 Full Date / 22 Partial Date (2 Liberty Nickels)
Roll 4:
24 Full Date / 16 Partial Date (1 Liberty Nickel)
Roll 5:
23 Full Date / 17 Partial Date (2 Liberty Nickels)
They were mostly 20's and 30's with some 10's mixed in.
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History of the Buffalo Nickel
The
Buffalo nickel
or
Indian Head nickel
is a copper-nickel five-cent piece that was struck by the United States Mint from 1913 to 1938. It was designed by sculptor James E. Fraiser.
As part of a drive to beautify the coinage, five denominations of US coins had received new designs between 1907 and 1909. In 1911, Taft Administration officials decided to replace Charles E. Barber's Liberty Head Design for the nickel, and commissioned Fraser to do the work. They were impressed by Fraser's designs showing a Native American and an American Bison. The designs were approved in 1912, but were delayed several months because of objections from the Hobbs Manufacturing Company, which made mechanisms to detect slugs in nickel-operated machines. The company was not satisfied by changes made in the coin by Fraser, and in February 1913, Treasure Secretary Franklin MacVeagh decided to issue the coins despite the objections.
Despite attempts by the Mint to adjust the design, the coins proved to strike indistinctly, and to be subject to wear—the dates were easily worn away in circulation. In 1938, after the expiration of the minimum 25-year period during which the design could not be replaced without congressional authorization, it was replaced by the Jefferson Nickel, designed by Felix Schlag. Fraser's design is admired today, and has been used on commemorative coins and the gold American Buffalo series.