One Of A Kind Buffalo Nickel??? Help Please

[FoxHound0985]

Hi there, I found this Buffalo Nickel in a bag of Wheat Pennies. As I was looking through them, I noticed that this Buffalo had somehow gotten mixed in with them. I usually sell a lot of coins on Ebay, so I through it in a lot with a bunch of other silver coins, nickels, and commemoratives. I had dumped them all out on the floor, and while I was counting them, I accidently knocked a magnet off my desk,
it landed in the middle of the pile, and the Buffalo immediatly jumped to the magnet. I picked it up and looked at it, and I noticed that it was a different color than the rest of the nikels. I got another buffalo from the pile and held the magnet up to it, nothing happened. I dropped both of them on the desk, and the unusual one made a dull sound, much like a 1943 steel cent. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before, or have any ideas of what it could be? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and HH!

Fox

 

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[omnicognic]

A few years ago my uncle ordered a rare coin collection from a late night infomercial, I guess he should have read the fine print because all the coins were replicas! maybe that's what you have? 8)

 

[MDnoob]

counterfeit, that's why it is all messed up looking.

 

[coinshooter]

If you still have it and you want to sell it send me a PM. I think it's interesting. Coinshooter

 

[cedarratt]

Old counterfit currency has value too, collectors like them because they are so rare.(the treasury destroys them when they come across them) Nice find. I have never seen a counterfit nickle. My dad a while back got a conterfit silver dollar. Back in the old days they would make a mold of a silver dollar, then melt one down and add copper or some other metal to it then cast two or more coins from that one. You can spot them if they are made this way cause some of the rigeds on the outside have to be hand filed where the spruw was.

Pretty neat find.

 

[FoxHound0985]

Do any of you think it would be a good idea to send it off to a grading service and get it slabbed? If it is counterfeit, will the service accept it, send it back, or turn it in to the treasury for being fake? HH!

Fox

 

[diggummup]

I remember when I was young,they had fake squirting nickels that you could buy at the local magic and joke shop.There was a small hole in the nickel,you pressed it stuck it in water and released it to fill it up.When you pressed it, it had a little play in it.They had buffalo nickels too.Probably not what you have but your post reminded me of that.Good luck and H.H.

 

[Coin_Saver]

Cool! cool coin and story! HH CS