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I have this belt buckle and incased in it are sum Indian buffalo head nickels. There's a 1935 a 1936 amd a 1937 all in amazing condition. I'm just curious if this is something somebody just through together themselves and possibly worth something or just a some What cool hunk of metal used for holding up pants?  Edited by burnside
11/25/2019 11:17 pm
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 to CCF. The only value it really has is belt buckle value,no numismatic value. The coins are common date and buffed and polished to death. Check ebay for buckles similar to yours. John1  |
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Technically the 6 Nickels are worth face . 30¢ .  |
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Making belt buckles with coins was fairly common in the past. There is a small market for this sort of thing. I think that it was more common in the west. They might sell in flea markets for $5-20 depending on the coins and how well it was made. The coins themselves, as as been pointed out, are damaged and have no numismatic value so you may as well leave them in the buckle.
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 with the above comments and... In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Regardless of what anyone says it's a treasure in your eyes . If we were all out to make money on these coins then I'd knock any find around , but it's value is if no concern as it goes with 90% of true collectors . Sure you're on here to aquire information on your piece but me personally, I love to admire coins. What you have is unique and no collector would turn that down . Monetary value might not be 10,000$ but to you it's awesome and that's what matters .
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Very cool though &  |
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Curious that we call the 5 cent pieces, " Buffalo nickels". The model for the Buffalo was a ill tempered guest of a New York Zoo and the Indian was an amalgamation of three Indians. Wear it proudly as a piece of Americana. |
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Sure you're on here to aquire information on your piece but me personally, I love to admire coins. What you have is unique and no collector would turn that down . One must be careful, though, because many, many fashion pieces do not use actual coins, but reproductions. There is no guarantee that the pictured buckle actually has six genuine nickels in it. I have a western style belt with WLHs attached, except they're not real and are one sided. That holds no collector value to me. Quote:Curious that we call the 5 cent pieces, " Buffalo nickels". Some would call it an "Indian Head Nickel," but I don't find it that curious at all. It has a buffalo on it and 5 cent pieces would be called nickels because of their composition at the time and before. The original 5 cent pieces, or Half Dimes, were silver. In 1870, for instance, both silver Half Dimes and the copper-nickel Shield nickel 5 cent piece were made. While both had the same face value, worded differently, one was silver and smaller and one was not silver and larger. It would have been important to name the coin appropriately to signify that it was not silver. What is curious is that modern nickels are still made of the same copper-nickel alloy that was used in 1866 for the first Shield nickels. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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12/19/2019 12:51 am
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The model for the Buffalo was a ill tempered guest of a New York Zoo I wonder if someday people will stop saying Buffalo instead of Bison. They are absolutely not the same animal. Even our famous Red Book says Buffalo. It is sort of like our Cent being called Penny. No way to stop it now. |
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Well, to be fair, the large American bovid is more closely related to the bison than to the buffalo, and for some reason no Native American terms for that species were borrowed into English. |
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Posted 11/26/2019 07:12 am
