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My Favorite Coins: The Buffalo Nickel

When you’ve been collecting for more than 65 years, you’re bound to acquire some coins that you like better than others. In this column, I’m going to tell you about some of my favorite coins. Here, I’m going to introduce you to the 1914-D Buffalo nickel in PCGS-graded XF45 that I purchased recently on eBay.

One reason I’m attracted to this coin is that I love Buffalo nickels and have owned many in my years as a collector. I even assembled a complete date/mintmark set back in the early 1970s. The set was a mixture of circulated and uncirculated pieces, and I don’t have a clue what I did with it.

As you probably know, the Buffalo

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