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A lot of it has to do with the iconic nature of the American Buffalo. It's also one of those rare standard issue coins were both sides represent so much. Truly a great coin. Then Jefferson nicks. Dead presidents.
Although I don't think it's as attractive as the Buffalo Nickel, the Indian Head Penny is one of the most collected coins out there. Easily as Iconic, and recognizable as the Buffalo nickel.
Sorry to get off topic, but outside of rarity, and somebody that has more money than they know what to do with the coin mentioned in this thread does nothing for me.
American symbolism of the late teens, 20's, and 30's. Best US coinage ever made!
That 1894-S was so coveted that when the original Whitman folders were produced for the Barbers in the 1950s, the hole was covered up with a special piece of cardboard with the word "RARE" on it, assuming that the average or even above average person won't be able to acquire one. If you can't afford that, there's always the 1916-D Winged Liberty (once again, few call it that and most call it "Mercury") that you can get for four figures in a decent circulated condition with just light to moderate wear (and around $300 for those worn to the rim), and it has proven to be a good investment in better grades, although it is 10,000 times more common than that elusive Barber, so it's not hard to attain, though lately, condition has become a lot more important than rarity, except for some of the early series like the Seated and Busts.
Remember the Dennis the Menace episode where Dennis gets caught onto a bank truck while he looks through pennies? As it turns out, he helps his buddy find a 1914-D Wheatie!
That 1894-S was so coveted that when the original Whitman folders were produced for the Barbers in the 1950s, the hole was covered up with a special piece of cardboard with the word "RARE" on it, assuming that the average or even above average person won't be able to acquire one. If you can't afford that, there's always the 1916-D Winged Liberty (once again, few call it that and most call it "Mercury") that you can get for four figures in a decent circulated condition with just light to moderate wear (and around $300 for those worn to the rim), and it has proven to be a good investment in better grades, although it is 10,000 times more common than that elusive Barber, so it's not hard to attain, though lately, condition has become a lot more important than rarity, except for some of the early series like the Seated and Busts.
Remember the Dennis the Menace episode where Dennis gets caught onto a bank truck while he looks through pennies? As it turns out, he helps his buddy find a 1914-D Wheatie!
I remember talking with a Gentleman in Brewers Art in Baltimore in about 2003 who said he went to the bank in the 50's when he was a kid to get a roll of dimes for his mother and actually acquired the 16 D Merc and still had it up to the time of our conversation.
Around the same year a guy purchased a low grade one at a show for just under two, and was ecstatic.
I have little interest in this stuff other than to flip it. Bikes, Records, Art, and everything else. I do dig those Hot Wheels I found a couple weeks ago.
I think our OLDER money was a real bunch of genuine ART by talented artists, the crap produced today on computer for coins and paper money looks like garbage, Jackson on the $20 looks like he has AIDS, the portrait is UGLY, the portraits on the coins look very amateurish.
I also like a number of the older Irish coins that all featured various animals on them- Hunter horse, hare, salmon, chicken and chicks, bull, sow and piglets, Irish wolfhound dog.
The 3 pence coin with the hare is about the size of a US dime while the half crown with the horse is about the size of a Kennedy half dollar, the chicken on the one pence coin is almost as large and that was basically a penny from the 1930s!
The sow is on the half pence coin.
The horse also appeared on the 20 pence coin which like the US Sacaga.. whatever... coin is bright gold in color and is about the size of a US quarter- pictured with the obverse design common to all of these coins, the Irish harp, Eire and year
The $2.5 Gold Indian Heads are the coins the kid was trading for those proof sets I mentioned earlier in the thread. I forgot, I thought they were $2.
I anybody has anything unusual to trade for a few nice buffs you can PM me. I am located in Baltimore County.
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