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1916 Buffalo Nickel NGC MS64

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1916 Buffalo Nickel NGC MS64
Nicely toned with forceful luster projecting through on both sides.

It appears that even the artist who designed this piece, James Earle Fraser, preferred the familiar term "buffalo" to the more zoologically correct bison. Semantics aside, the model for the nickel's reverse is known to have been a bull named Black Diamond. This animal was then a resident of New York City's Central Park Zoo and was already about seventeen years old at the time.