1913-D 5C Type 1 PO1 Certification #19118885, PCGS #3916

Though I couldn't comment with any degree of certainty on the whereabouts of this coin during its working days, it obviously passed through many hands. I can, however, authoritatively address its history over the last 40-plus years. (Please note that I have not let annoying details - like a lack of facts - stop me from discerning where the other coins in this collection spent their working lives.) Somehow, as a kid, this one ended up in my first collection. Likely sources? I might have pulled it out of circulation - was rare but I can remember the big thrill of getting a Buffalo in change from time to time. Second possibility is that Dad gave it to me - I came across my numismatic addiction the old-fashioned way - genetically. Whatever the case: When I left home and my parents gleefully turned my former bedroom into the dining room they'd always wanted, this nickel found its way into a box with the rest of my charter collection. After both parents had passed - I found that box in the crawl space beneath the house and was re-united with many "old friends". Lots of memories associated with this humble little piece and I can't say I wasn't thrilled when it returned from PCGS in a PO01 holder. HOME MADE, the first 1913D PCGS graded as a PO01.

David Hall

The 1913-D Type I Buffalo is much rarer than the 1913 Philadelphia. It's about 5 to 10 times rarer in mint state and probably 20 times rare in circulated grades. Still, the 1913-D Type is one of the more available early date Buffalos. This is generally a well struck issue. Luster typically ranges from dull to bright satiny.