Five Buffalo Nickels for Craft or School Project

Description: 15.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This auction is for five Buffalo Nickels that were in circulation way too long. As the picture shows, the dates are gone. The items seen in the picture are the items for sale. The winning bidder will pay postage (plus $1 handling) and sales tax. No combined shipping on this item. Please e-mail questions - Good Luck. The Buffalo nickel became a reality on March 4, 1913 when coins from the first bag to go into circulation were presented to outgoing President Taft and 33 Indian Chiefs at the groundbreaking ceremonies for the National Memorial to the North American Indian at Fort Wadsworth, New York. James Earle Fraser, a former assistant to Saint-Gaudens and a prolific artist best known for his monumental "End of the Trail" Indian sculpture, created a truly unique design for the new coin. Up until that time, except for Bela Lyon Pratt's quarter and half eagle of 1908, the "Indians" portrayed on U.S. coins were primarily Caucasian with an Indian headdress, epitomized by Saint Gauden's Greek Nike head on the 1907 Indian eagle. Fraser's design accurately portrays Indians as they look, and the obverse portrait was a composite of three chiefs that had posed for him. Keeping with the distinctly American theme, he depicted an American bison on the reverse. The inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM are artfully placed over the buffalo, with the denomination FIVE CENTS below. The legend LIBERTY and the date are similarly well executed on the coin's obverse. From Coinsite.com

Price: 0.75 USD

Location: Chino Hills, California

End Time: 2024-11-04T00:10:57.000Z

Shipping Cost: 1.97 USD