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?