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Lot of (5) Buffalo Nickels with Restored Dates Including 1915, (2) 1916, 1914, & 1919

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Lot of (5) Buffalo Nickels with Restored Dates Including 1915, (2) 1916, 1914, & 1919

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Auction Date:2016 Feb 21 @ 19:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:2320 W Peoria Ave Suite B142, Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, United States
Lot of (5) Buffalo Nickels with Restored Dates Including 1915, (2) 1916, 1914, & 1919.
 As part of a drive to beautify the coinage, five denominations of US coins had received new designs between 1907 and 1909. In 1911, Taft Administration officials decided to replace Charles Barber and Liberty Head designs for the nickel, and commissioned sculptor James Earle Fraser to do the work. They were impressed by Fraser's designs showing a Native American and an American Bison. The designs were approved in 1912, but were delayed several months because of objections from the Hobbs Manufacturing Company, which made mechanisms to detect slugs in nickel-operated machines. The company was not satisfied by changes made in the coin by Fraser, and in February 1913,Treasury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh decided to issue the coins despite the objections.