By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ......
It's quite common to find Buffalo nickels that are dateless—missing the four digits that indicate the year the coin...
Coin Rarities & Related Topics: News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, markets, and coin collecting #396
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds .....
With more than two...
Coin Rarities & Related Topics: News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community, #254
A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg...
A Stunning Mint Error Emerges from a Long-Held Collection
In late 2025, a remarkable discovery surfaced from an old-time mint error collection. Among several rare...
No United States nickel variety combines historical circumstance, technical clarity, and long-term collector demand as powerfully as the 1918/7-D Buffalo Nickel. This overdate is...
For more than two decades, James Earle Fraser’s Buffalo nickel tested the limits of American coinage. Although collectors now celebrate the design as a...
A Unique 1913 Mint Anomaly That Redefines American Coinage
By Mike Byers , formatted by CoinWeek
True discoveries in U.S. numismatics are rare. Even rarer are...
The Buffalo Nickel series, struck from 1913 through 1938 and designed by James Earle Fraser, has long rewarded collectors with distinctive die varieties. Among...
By CoinWeek Notes
Welcome back to our guide to building the ultimate 20th-century type set.
In our last installment , we outlined the basic principles of...
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ....
Nickel production at the San Francisco Mint fell to 1.2 million coins in 1931, marking the lowest output of the denomination...