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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
06/13/2026 07:53 am
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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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I'm a nickel lover through and through. That said, my favorite nickel and personal favorite designed coin in general is the Liberty nickel. I really like the Shield nickel too, but it is not a set that is easy to complete and most people aren't into them due to price. I was also working on a set of them, but have mostly abandoned it for now due to pricing as I'm not really particularly a fan of paying 40-50 dollars per coin, especially for ones that aren't silver. I do, of course, also like Buffalo nickels and Jefferson nickels a lot as well, as you can tell by my working sets of them. I'm gonna use this as an excuse to post my Liberty nickels. Lol.  Edited by Humanist1287
06/19/2026 07:26 am
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Excellent collection, Humanist1287.
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Buffalos are the only nickels that depict the magnificence of the natural US of A. And through the masterful lens of James Earle Fraser who also gave us such expressive masterpieces as the End of the Trail bronze. He captured our nation's ethos in the 19th century and made his vision of our nation accessible to anyone in art that anyone could carry in their own pocket, even if you were a homeless traveler trying to survive during the great depression.  Fraser's masterpiece in Shaler Park, Waupun, Wisconsin IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Well said. |
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A collection to be proud of, Humanist!
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Excellent collection, Humanist1287 Thank you!  Quote:Your Liberty nickel collection offers support to your argument Quote:
A collection to be proud of, Humanist! Thank you! |
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Great collection, Humanist!
Errers and Varietys.
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