Golden finds Buffalo

[dahut]

Hit a couple of spots today. One was an old school and the other a recently cleared field. I had hunted the old school 15 years ago, but much of the surrounding land has been cleared and opened up. Didn't find much, but that is to be expected for a school that has been hounded for years. I also suspect we are playing clean-up behind others, at some point. So be it.
The field gave up only one harmonica reed and plenty of iron.

Heres my pouch dump:

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The cleaned gleanings:

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These are the coins:

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The meager keeper coins:

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[XLT-user]

n/t

 

[dahut]

... Thats stuff you see in the second pic, at the top. The black "rocks?" That's coal.
One part of the school was littered with the stuff, as if it was a dump site for it. That is where all the coins came from.

 

[Beale]

Congrats on the nice hunt! The Buffs are hard to come by. Good job, Beale.

 

[dahut]

... are one of my favorite coins. The coins of the Art Deco period, as a group, are IMHO the most artistic coins in our history. The fact that they ended before the middle of the twentieth century (except for the Lincoln Cent) also makes them good benchmarks for a sites age.

This particular Buffalo* is dateless, as well. This normally afflicts the earlier date coins, from 1913-1927. It means that nickel was in circulation a long time. It was not uncommon to find Buff's in pocket change well into the 60's, by all accounts.

That fact, when taken along with the other coins found, means that particular spot to have been collecting coins from the mid 50's on.

* The animal on the Buffalo nickel, well... isn't. It's really a Bison. A real, live bison posed for the coins' artist, in fact. His name was Black Diamond .
When the first settlers saw the immense herds of bison on this continent, they didn't know just what they were. But they were reminded of the Asian buffalo, which was known by then. So that's what they called them, and the name stuck.

For all you ever wanted to know about the Buffalo Nickel, visit .... what else...
www. buffalonickel.com

 

[nad]

There were bison in the Eastern forests of the US. Smaller than their Great Plains counterparts, they were called "Forest Cattle", and had migratory trails.About the same size as the Polish bison still living in the Eastern Forests...Remembering that,eons before, there were also Mastodon in the area, and they migrated, you could assume that the Indian trails were well marked by the four leggers.. Years ago, I stopped at a rest area../,look out site in the Far Mid West. Some gal in an ill fitting uniform was squeaking out how the highway followed a "Bison Trail"..I chimed in, "And, before that a Mastodon Trail!"..Everyone looked to see who the nut was..Couple of years after that they were putting in a septic system, and found the remains of a Mastodon.,,,.By the way, everything has been ploughed, turned over,so the ground is not original..Take a look at buffalo wallow pictures. remember what they look like when out and about. If you see a depression where none should be, start checking.. Those areas could be rich in Indian arrowheads and copper points.Cordially NAD