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US Nickel Coins: Rare Nickels with a Bright Future

United States Five Cent Coins

 

 

Certain US nickel coins have shown solid price trend appreciation over long periods of time. These rare nickels have always been popular with collectors, providing the impetus for sustained value growth. Here, we've highlighted a few US nickel coins having a bullish future, based on past performance.



Date: 1937-D Three Leg

Series: Buffalo nickels

Mint: Denver

     

1937-D Buffalo Nickel obv 1937-D 3-legged Buffalo Nickel

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Estimated Coin Value in Year...

Compounded Annual % Rate

of Return Since...

1950 1980 1995 2000 2006 1950 1980 1995 2000
G-4 1.25 125 100 150 500 11.08 5.27 14.35 18.77
VG-8 1.50 160 200 225 725 11.45 5.76 11.33 18.19
F-12 2.00 175 250 275 900 11.31 6.25 11.26 18.46
VF-20 2.50 225 300 350 1000 11.08 5.68 10.55 16.18
EF-40 4.00 270 425 425 1250 10.60 5.84 9.41 16.66
AU-50 5.50 295 525 600 1500 10.34 6.21 9.14 13.99
MS-60 7.50 475 1250 1350 2750 10.91 6.72 6.79 10.70
MS-63 - - 3500 3250 6250 - - 4.95 9.79
MS-65 - - 15000 15000 30000 - - 5.95 10.41

Comments:

In 1937, an inexperienced Denver Mint employee improperly used an abrasive stick in an attempt to remove clash marks from a Buffalo nickel reverse die.  In the grinding process, the bison's foreleg was removed, and coining was then resumed with the "repaired" die.  Before inspectors realized the goof, a small quantity of "three-legged" nickels escaped into circulation.

 

From that moment to this very day, the 1937-D Three-legged variety has been one of the most desired Buffalo nickels, with a a legacy of solid price advancements to prove it.  The last several years has been especially good, as has the coin market in general.  Buff collectors needn't fear overpricing, though, because if held long term, the 1937-D Three-legged variety has always moved higher and higher.  Purchase only from a reputable source... many fakes exist.

The Year This Coin Was Minted...

By 1937, the threat of global war became increasingly ominous.  Adolf Hitler, the ruthless dictator of Nazi Germany, was becoming evermore aggressive, as was Italy's Benito Mussolini.  In July, the warlords of Japan invaded and occupied large portions of China.    Meanwhile, the bloody Spanish civil war entered its second year.

 

On the American home front, disillusionment, pacifism and isolationism, compounded by persistent economic woes, carried the day, despite President Franklin Roosevelt's best efforts to rally the public.  In December, Japanese planes bombed the US gunboat Panay while it patrolled China's Yangtze River.  Fearing a confrontation with Japan, a solid majority of Americans favored total US withdrawal from the Far East.

 

Other headlines from 1937 include the mysterious disappearance of aviatrix Amelia Earhart on a Pacific flight.  Elsewhere, Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Gone With the Wind.

Nazi Rally Nuremberg
Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany.  Throughout much of the 1930s, while the US was mired in the Great Depression, military dictatorships in Germany, Italy, and Japan were busy preparing for war.  Pacifism in the US and Great Britain helped enable the rise of the Axis powers, sowing the seeds for the most catastrophic conflict in human history. Public domain image.

©Copyright 2006 by us-coin-values.advisor.com.

Coin Photo courtesy of Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA.

Public domain historical image.

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