182 Buffalo Nickels.

Pictures of the 1918/7-d

Here is that 1919-D example I accidentally deleted earlier. It was restored with Nic-A-Date. Like I said, this was my first attempt. I put a little too much which spread outside the date area.

There's another forum on here that was also talking about these restored dates. Some folks restore the WHOLE nickel and sell them on ebay for a pretty decent buck. Here's what I said on the other forum: There are several people who sell a LOT of these "chemically altered" coins on ebay and seem to be pretty successful at it. The biggest seller is a guy in Utah calles "Sweetwatercoins". He goes for weeks without selling any and then sells upwards of 100 all at once. Probably the best one in terms of quality is a guy who goes by "buffaloreincarnations". Only sells about a dozen per week but, as I said, they're very nice. Another guy who goes by "weatherbuff2" has good quality but frequently only restores the date. Anyway - my point in telling you all this is that these guys get GOOD prices for these nickels, so anyone who says there's no money in it might not have looked at these guys. They're getting between $20 and $60 for the keys and $5 - $15 for the others. : One final note, that second guy I mentioned is giving away free samples of his work. I got one from him and it was NICE.

Great find, Murty!
It really looks good! I will be looking for dateless Buffalos also, I guess. It is a whole new adventure in cherrypicking!


CCs

What would a fair price be for a roll of dateless Buffalos? I found the Nic-A-Date for about $2 and was wondering what a good price might be for a bunch (or a herd!) of nickels to work on....

Thanks, CCs

You should be able to get them for less than that. Just do a search on ebay for "no date buffalo" and you'll get a bunch of sellers. You'll have to bid and you'll have to wait for the bidding to end, but you should be able to get them for about 25 cents each. Even with $5 or $6 shipping added on it should still be less than 40 cents per coin.

Agreed! And if you're looking around on ebay, the honest and up-front sellers will usually volunteer that information in their ads. Here's a good one to look at: Go to ebay and type in 360100257852 in the search box. That takes you to a listing of 377 no date buffalos. The seller clearly spells out how many mint marked coins you can expect to find. He's had a zillion transactions with a %100 rating so he seems trustworthy.