What do you think of this Buffalo Nickel

[MikeKing]

I posted this accross the street, so no cheating!!!!

 

I don't know what possessed me today, but I went into a box that I have and noticed some old coins I've had since I was a kid. I can say that I've had them for at least 39 yr because in it was a coin that a childhood friend had given me. He lived in England and wanted me to have one of their coins, so he gave me a brand new 1/2 penny dated 1967, and it's remained with those other coins since. One of them is this Buffalo nickel that at first I thought was corroded, but after leaving it on my desk, glancing over to it, I noticed that it wasn't corroded afterall!

 

What's going on with it?

 

[TJ'S Coins]

Cool effect. My first thought, for what it is worth, is that someone was trying to make a hobo type coin out of this with the formation of a beard and the outline for a hat or helmet on the head and for whatever reason gave up.

[Stanley]

Some one was making a hobo nickel

[zrlevin]

Cool hobo nickel!

[SkyMan]

Looks like the beginnings of a hobo nickel to me.

[Bruceswar]

yep thats a hobo alright.. looks cool.

[MunkyMan95]

Hobo-riffic!

[RUSS BEGA]

looks like the start of a hobo nickel to me. but gail baker at the ana is an expert at the subject. baker@money.org try to see if she can confirm our assumtions. she'll help she's always willing to help

 

Russ

[MikeKing]

thanks, I'll email her.

[James_OldeTowne]

I think it's an imitative attempt, not a "real" attempt to create a hobo nickel. In other words, someone saw a hobo nickel at some point in his travels, and decided to see if he could figure out how to do it. He got an awl or something, poked these holes, then realized that he had no clue how to create a hobo nickel properly, and so gave up.

 

Just my completely uninformed opinion...

[EZ_E]

I think it's an imitative attempt, not a "real" attempt to create a hobo nickel. In other words, someone saw a hobo nickel at some point in his travels, and decided to see if he could figure out how to do it. He got an awl or something, poked these holes, then realized that he had no clue how to create a hobo nickel properly, and so gave up.

 

Just my completely uninformed opinion...

 

That was my impression, too.

[Buffalo_Pete]

Obviously someone started to make an attempt at "hobo-ing" this specimen, then quit.

 

Notice the attempt at adding a goatee to the chin.

 

They probably stopped the alteration when it didn't pan out.

 

Too bad. It's still collectable...............

 

And it is a two-feather variety.

 

Pete