89 years on the march

And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man.

I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the
2005 honorary bison. ;-)

Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may
prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards.
Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance.
And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English.
To each their own. g

Alan
'just what I hear'

"Alan Williams" wrote in message
...
And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man...

Now, that is a find! I've never found anything older than the 40's.

Anita

Alan Williams wrote:

And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man.

I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the
2005 honorary bison. ;-)

Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may
prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards.
Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance.
And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English.
To each their own. g

Alan
'just what I hear'

I grab a few rolls when I need parking meter coins :-)

wrote:

"Alan Williams" wrote in message
...

And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man...


Now, that is a find! I've never found anything older than the 40's.

Anita

Often they re-apear because children loot their parent's collection and
spend them, or they have been burgled and/or stolen.

My brother used to work at a public swimming pool and bring home silver
coins almost on a weekly basis.

I picked a 59-D dime out of my change a couple weeks ago.

Richard Adams wrote:

wrote:

"Alan Williams" wrote in message
...

And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man...


Now, that is a find! I've never found anything older than the 40's.

Anita

Often they re-apear because children loot their parent's collection and
spend them, or they have been burgled and/or stolen.

My brother used to work at a public swimming pool and bring home silver
coins almost on a weekly basis.

I picked a 59-D dime out of my change a couple weeks ago.

This is about the 3rd or 4th Buffalo I've found in the past 24 months in
roll searches...one dateless, but the others all had dates including,
IIRC, a rather nifty mid-1920's in VG condition. ;-)

This 1917 is almost certainly a 'circulation survivor' both due to its
condition which is only G-4 and it's relatively high initial mintage of
54 million or so. If people truly are stealing three-legged buffalo or
1921-S coins and dumping them back into circulation at face value, it is
not happening near me.

Alan
'was suspected in the theft of a tractor trailer of nickels'

e wrote:

In article , wrote:


And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man.

I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the
2005 honorary bison. ;-)

Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may
prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards.
Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance.
And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English.
To each their own. g

Alan
'just what I hear'

i like buying coins and waiting for them to show up, but
nothing beats a bag of coins to gawk at. while halves are my
fave, a bag of nickels or pennys holds it's charm.
i haven't found a buff in 3-4 years but i do get war nickels
and i did just finish the 5th full book from circulation.

Wow! I bow, in deference to your volume! I am still waiting for my
first 1939 D or S, although with todays orphans I am now nearly at a
full roll of 1939 (P).

Alan
'1943-P dominates my War nickel roster'

Richard Adams wrote:

Alan Williams wrote:

And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man.

I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the
2005 honorary bison. ;-)

Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may
prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards.
Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance.
And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English.
To each their own. g

Alan
'just what I hear'

I grab a few rolls when I need parking meter coins :-)

you gleep abba zeppo grab a few gulp gummo rolls of Buffalo bono mazola
nickel rolls for fortuna fanta parking meter change?

Alan
'gibbering reaction'

In my wife's change today was a 1907 IHC in good condition. A nice
surprice...

Tom

Alan Williams wrote:

Richard Adams wrote:

Alan Williams wrote:


And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a
1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man.

I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the
2005 honorary bison. ;-)

Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may
prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards.
Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance.
And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English.
To each their own. g

Alan
'just what I hear'

I grab a few rolls when I need parking meter coins :-)


you gleep abba zeppo grab a few gulp gummo rolls of Buffalo bono mazola
nickel rolls for fortuna fanta parking meter change?

Alan
'gibbering reaction'

I go through the flaming hoops at the BoA to get a few rolls of nickels
for parking meter change. I search them and the remainders end up in a
sack I pull from to feed meters, rather than feed them my precious
quarters when all I need is 12 minutes. :-) Got a 43-S last time.

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:32:01 -0500, Alan Williams
wrote:

Some may prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards.

PayPal is more popular than straight credit cards. But you can't beat
buying in person, looking at the coin from various angles. But you
knew that.

Cleaned ancient coins.

Virtually all ancient coins are cleaned. A tiny percentage never wound
up in a hoard underground for two millennia or so, dirty and
encrusted. But you knew that.

Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance.

Virtually all ancient coins have uncertain provenance. You can't get
information beyond who you're buying from for more than a tiny
percentage because of the realities of the industry. But you knew
that.

To each their own. g

Bad grammar. But you knew that. g

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