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Jefferson has the slimmest edge over Buffalo for me. Jefferson was the first nickel folder I got and it was filled before I moved them to a Dansco album. The Buffalo folder only had a few at that time I moved it, but I eventually finished that set as well.
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Yes my favorite is the Buffalo, evidently like the majority of us. I will add I love the look of mint state Jefferson War Nickels as well; the addition of some silver gives them a special gleam. I believe we get interest in coins as kids and what little boy doesn't love Buffalo nickels |
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  This is my favorite. |
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Nice group!  |
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Although I have collected quite a few valuable Jefferson nickels, the design aesthetic simply cannot compete with the Buffalo nickel. Both the Indian and the Buffalo are a beautiful representation of America's early 20th century obsession with settling the West. |
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Nice group! Thank you, jbuck. These were pretty common when I was a kid. My American Silver Eagle collection http://goccf.com/t/448125My random silver coin collection http://goccf.com/t/449270My MS-70 silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490829My dragon silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490859 |
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The Buffalo nickel is for sure the best design of any nickel, IMO, although I also enjoy the Three Cent Nickel series. Arguably, the Buffalo nickel is the most distinctly American design of any US coin. For those reasons, I selected the Buffalo as my favorite nickel. I have a set of Jefferson nickels, but they don't bring me as much joy as Buffalos. |
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I love the Buffalo Nick els the most   |
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Very cool, Dearborn! Errers and Varietys.
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What is your favorite nickel? Had you asked "nickel design/type," I'm with the majority ... Buffalo. However, you included CN Three Cent pieces as an option, so, why not the CN Indian cents, I thought? Then, given my preoccupation with counterstamps, I immediately thought of my first and favorite c/s issue, being the specific issue that started me on the road to seriously collecting this genre ...   I was/am also into Civil War tokens, and this "nickel" issue is a listed CW token from Erie, PA. Thus, it was doubly interesting to me when acquired; this, now fifty years ago. I then lived but an hour's drive from Erie, so I researched Wm. Bell in the library there. My first counterstamp article was later written about him and published in the journal of the Civil War Token Society. Funny, how a meandering collector's mind works, and one thing leads to another, eh what?  Edited by ExoGuy
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way back in 1976 I made a clay 'piggy' bank of a Buff Nic, Impressive! |
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Then, given my preoccupation with counterstamps, I immediately thought of my first and favorite c/s issue, being the specific issue that started me on the road to seriously collecting this genre ... Excellent! |
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