Daily Archives: August 19, 2009

Are you old enough to remember when the BUFFALO NICKEL was in circulation? Or maybe you’ve seen them in display cases at a coin shop or in a friend’s collection. They fascinated me as a kid, the picture of a proud Native American on the obverse and a mighty buffalo on the reverse. How easy it was to examine one side, then flip the coin over and look at the other side.

I seriously doubt if you have a BUFFALO NICKEL in your pocket, so look at the two sides of the coin in the picture below: