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Buffalo soldat's Last 20 Posts
| 1916 Buffalo DDO - Hub Doubling?
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
 Posted 06/07/2025 8:33 pm
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Is this what I've heard described as a poor man's double die? The proper ones I've looked at more recently have the doubling below the date.
I don't have a photo of the reverse. I think in the end I did not acquire this piece. If I did, it has slipped off my radar into a pile somewhere.
Thanks in advance.
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| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Variety and Error Coins |
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| Your Favorite Denomination To Coin Roll Hunt?
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 06/07/2025 09:42 am
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I always preferred half dollars and dollars when hunting in the US, back when you could still find them at banks. Once in a blue moon they have them now, but the silver has mostly been cherry-picked.
In New Zealand by far the coin with the best potential for flaws/errors is the one dollar coin. |
| | Forum: Coin Roll Hunting |
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| 1869 Seated Liberty Half: Cleaned?
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 06/06/2025 08:22 am
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Accidental bidding is a touchy phenomenon. Last year a local New Zealand auction site had a 1916 DDO Buffalo listed with an estimated sale price of NZ$15,000. Well, it had already reached that when bidding went live. I set the phone down for the duration of the auction, because with my luck I would accidentally swipe to bid, perhaps if I'd knocked it off and tried to catch it, or whatever
Final sale price NZ$30,000. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| Crypto Craziness Has Arrived
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 06/04/2025 05:51 am
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My issue with cryptos broadly is this: What's to stop there being a million different ones? With country currencies, there's a finite number of governments. While they can print as much currency as they want, that will impact its value, as will confidence in that country and/or its government. Also, a given currency is backed by that government (unless/until it isn't, but it in theory.....). Who backs a crypto? It's finite nature only guarantees a limited supply of that particular one, but there's still the potential for an inifinite number of possible cryptos. Which ones maintain value? They can't all.
No crypto advocates have ever been able to answer this question. I can't recall any of them even trying.
Personally, I'd rather invest in tulips. |
| | Forum: Precious Metals and Bullion - Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum |
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| 18th Century US Trade Dollar On Ebay
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 06/02/2025 10:39 pm
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Hahaha!
Oh, gods. Here I was going to correct you that it must be 19th century for the obvious reason, but it's not. It is indeed dated 18th century.
Caveat emptor. Maybe anyone that buys it would be interested in a lease-to-own deal on a bridge that I just heard about. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| 1919 S L B Quarter - Full Head?
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/31/2025 6:48 pm
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| Thanks for all the feedback. I don't feel hard done by. This was in amongst several ounces of mostly Commonwealth (UK, Australia, SAF) silver that I got for a little more than spot. There were some other nice pieces, but this was the cherry. |
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| 1919 S L B Quarter - Full Head?
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/31/2025 04:22 am
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Better photo, but still not optimal. I'm not well-practiced with the macro lens. I'll give it another shot, but I'm only seeing the slightest hint of hair above the brow, although there is definition in the hair towards the back of the head, and the indentation of the ear seems evident.
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| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| Goodbye To The Penny
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/30/2025 9:37 pm
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@cladking: Not being cheeky, but the post you quoted didn't mention NZ, though your analysis of the coin market here in NZ is spot on. There is not much in the way of a comparison in terms of longevity of "legal tender" coins because NZ has revised its coinage several times since introducing its own in the 30s.
My comments from another thread about the US one cent:
New Zealand is an interesting example as even demonetised coins can be redeemed through the Reserve Bank:
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-...-or-old-cash
And that includes before the move to dollars and cents in 1967, so we're talking pounds, shillings and pence. And that can possibly even include pre-NZ coinage, which prior to the early 1930s meant British coins. Apparently that can be more of a battle, and would be foolish in numismatic terms much of the time, or in terms of PMs as quite a few were sterling silver up through 1920 or so.
As it is, older coins are available on the local online auction site, as well as at local auction houses. Accumulations of older coins will come up, and go for anything to scrap up to something approaching numismatic value, or even exceeding it if people don't know what they're doing. Kind of the same story everywhere on that last point. One and Two Cent coins in particular seem to be in good supply, as are pre-decimal coins, so the pre-1967 stuff.
Likewise, when they introduced the one and two dollar coin in the early 90s they phased out the one and two dollar notes. I hope the US comes to its senses and elimiates the dollar note sooner or later. In any case, those old notes can similarly be traded in for modern money. Those notes remain collectable and come up at auction often as well. Anyone under the age of 40 would probably give you a funny look if you tried to present one. In saying that, I get funny looks in the US when I try and spend a Kennedy half. |
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| 1919 S L B Quarter - Full Head?
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/30/2025 9:07 pm
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I've had few enough of these in really good nick that I'm not sure if it is a proper full head. Opinions welcome on head and condition. Apologies for the photos. The autofocus is more theoretical. I think I need to try these again and focus manually.
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| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| Buffalo Nickel Value Versus Total Mintage Question
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/30/2025 12:38 pm
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I still find the 1914-D values anomalous in the entire series. It was early in the series, a relatively large number were made, and book values don't go up quickly with higher grades, not like they do for the 1924-S, for example. I think all of that explantation about die wear, etc., works for the 24-S, but not the 14-D.
In any case, thanks for the thorough response, @fortcollins, and interesting observation about the UK, @Pacificoin. |
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| Buffalo Nickel Value Versus Total Mintage Question
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/30/2025 05:52 am
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OK, I'm even later to the party, but I've wondered the same thing for many years. I've been in New Zealand nearly two decades, and I have some speculative insight on this. Let me say first that an unusual number of 1914-Ds and 1916 DDOs have turned up in NZ. While I've not had the luxury of finding any of the latter ones (maybe a poor man's version, but not a proper one), I have now gotten hold of maybe six or seven 1914-Ds.
My theory is that significant numbers of certain mintages ended up in places like Panama or Europe during WWI. I've tested the Panama theory on knowledgable folks here, though they insist that no one on troop ships from NZ transiting the canal would not have been allowed off ship. Hard to know how it really went at the time. It was a long trip across the Pacific, and it's hard to imagine there wouldn't have been some shore leave taken.
In any case, when serving side by side in WWI or visiting a base of a friendly nation, it's easy to see where soldiers hanging out and making friends might share a coin as a token of friendship or pay each other small debts (or win a pot in poker?). A dime was slightly smaller than a British sixpence. Both would have had similar silver contents.
In WWII the phenomenon was even more pronounced because the US actually had bases here temporarily. I suspect quite a bit of US coinage just entered circulation at a rough equivalent to their NZ counterparts in terms of size. Even now when cruise ships come to town some local businesses will accept U$, Australian $ and euros from passengers who haven't bothered to convert money to NZ dollars.
Picture of one of my 1914-Ds for tax. I think it's fire damaged. Most of them have been roughly the same condition (without the fire damage) or better. Note die rotation. The beauty of finding US coins here is that they tend to have been chucked in a box and left since they came back here because they cannot be spent here.
(I've added to this post rather than starting a new one, but if a mod/admin thinks a new thread is in order, I'm happy to start it.) |
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| Your Opinion Of The Future Of US Penny Values
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/30/2025 05:13 am
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In practical terms, some of it comes down to how people view the items after either production is stopped or they are demonetized, bearing in mind those are two rather different things. While one cent coins are barely worth anything anyway in the US, whether in terms of purchasing power or metal content, as a collectible item it's hard to imagine any year/mintage over a billion coins ever accruing much value, with the exception of specimen pieces, be they errors or just really high grade pieces. But as long as they remain "money", they'll be floating about the place anyway.
New Zealand is an interesting example as even demonetised coins can be redeemed through the Reserve Bank:
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-...-or-old-cash
And that includes before the move to dollars and cents in 1967, so we're talking pounds, shillings and pence. And that can possibly even include pre-NZ coinage, which prior to the early 1930s meant British coins. Apparently that can be more of a battle, and would be foolish in numismatic terms much of the time, or in terms of PMs as quite a few were sterling silver up through 1920 or so.
As it is, older coins are available on the local online auction site, as well as at local auction houses. Accumulations of older coins will come up, and go for anything to scrap up to something approaching numismatic value, or even exceeding it if people don't know what they're doing. Kind of the same story everywhere on that last point. One and two cent coins in particular seem to be in good supply, as are pre-decimal coins, so the pre-1967 stuff.
Likewise, when they introduced the one and two dollar coin in the early 90s they phased out the one and two dollar notes. I hope the US comes to its senses and elimiates the dollar note sooner or later. In any case, those old notes can similarly be traded in for modern money. Those notes remain collectable and come up at auction often as well. Anyone under the age of 40 would probably give you a funny look if you tried to present one. In saying that, I get funny looks in the US when I try and spend a Kennedy Half. |
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| Goodbye To The Penny
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/27/2025 2:16 pm
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| Prediction: A rumour will start that pennies won't be accepted as currency anymore, and people will turn them in en masse. The Treasury will end up with billions of them and, lacking any reason or means to store them, will sell them off for scrap. Zinc and copper prices will fall for the mid-term shortly thereafter and in 50 years most zinc pennies still won't be worth much more than their weight because many still won't get turned in, and there will remain an oversupply of any made after 1963 anyway. |
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| Gold Nose Dives To Current Low
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Buffalo soldat
Valued Member
New Zealand
65 Posts |
Posted 05/27/2025 03:56 am
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The other thing about the reliance on the U$ is that it has become an anchor around neck of the global economy, and no one can realistically afford to throw it overboard. I think that was learned in the recent kerfuffle when certain countries started threatening to sell a certain country's bonds in retaliation for that country's abrupt economic policy changes. The more seriously aaggrieved countries could organise further to undermine the U$, but that would probably happen on the down-low until they had a plan of action up and running. Even then, many countries hold a LOT of US debt, for better or worse.
I suspect that if/when the U$ falls off its perch the main precipitating factors will have been missed by most prognosticators. It will be future historians who, with the benefit of hindsight, will wonder why we didn't all see it coming.
Side note: Limitations on "talking politics" here make sense at one level, but it is a little funny when trying to talk economics to also not talk politics since the two are inextricably linked. It's a little like not being allowed to talk about where to shop for specialty ingredients when advising someone on preparing a particular meal. Again, I get it, but it is a little odd. I think the trick is being dispassionate about it. It's possible to discuss things without offering an opinion. It's a fine line. If I cross, I'm glad to be corrected. |
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