Name that bison
This question comes from Ron (although, it's really not a question, as much as a statement saying he wants to know something, but that's good enough for me).
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Bahamas 1975-1973 Dual Dated 5-Cent Variety Discovered! ...
bison, buffalo: Species considered typically North American, used on coinage and paper money of the United States; bison is a better term than buffalo, ...
Robison Collection. VF-30. Lester Merkin February 1972, Lot 368A, $11,000; Terrell Collection; American Auction Association, May 1973, Lot 1009, $10,050; Robison Collection; Stack's, February 1979, Lot 115, $13,000. Small nick just left of star 7.
American Bison, Sunflowers
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New River Gorge Bridge Caption: "New River Gorge" ...
One has a bison skull at the center of the coin, with mountains in the background and the words "Big Sky Country." ...
A buffalo (bison) named Black Diamond, who was a resident of the New York Zoological Park served as the model. Fraser utilized a little artistic freedom to depict the bison as though he was on the Great Plains.
North American Bison on Reverse of US Gold Buffalo Coin
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Lastly, the ruminant on the reverse of the coin is, more accurately, an American bison.
These old nickels depicted an Indian Head design on one side and the Buffalo or American Bison on the other. The buffalo-bison design was revived in the year 2005 for a one year special minting on the US nickel again.
Type One Buffalo A 1913-dated Indian Head five-cent coin with the reverse buffalo (bison) on a raised mound.
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He cut away the mound and placed the bison on a straight line, then put the denomination in the recessed area under the line. This solved the reverse wear problem, but then he kept going.
It is widely believed that the bison on the coin's reverse was modeled after "Black Diamond," a popular attraction at the New York Zoological Gardens.
Two main design types were produced of the Buffalo nickel, the first being limited to early 1913 issues with the buffalo (bison) standing on a raised mound and the second, with the buffalo standing on a plain or a line, ...
The fate of the American Buffalo - or bison - was linked to the fate of the Native American, and vice versa.
The bison was modeled after "Black Diamond," a popular attraction in the New York Zoological Gardens in the early part of the 20th century.
The purely American design featured the head of an Indian Chief on the obverse and an American bison on the reverse. The earliest versions had the words "FIVE CENTS" on a raised mound at the base of the reverse.
After all, animal lovers will be happy to know that the vanishing American Bison is on the nickel redesign. Even the historic keelboat that Lewis and Clark used creates an alternative to the same portrait of Thomas Jefferson we've all grown up with.
The North Dakota quarter shows two bison grazing left in the foreground. Behind them is the Badlands with the sun setting.
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A 1913-dated Indian Head five-cent coin with the reverse buffalo (bison) on a raised mound.
Type One gold dollar
The Liberty Head design gold dollar struck from 1849 until mid-1854 in Philadelphia and for the full year in Dahlonega and San Francisco.
An Indian Head nickel with the reverse buffalo (bison) on level ground. These were struck from mid-1913 until the series ended in 1938.
Type Two gold dollar ...
Type Two Buffalo An Indian Head nickel with the reverse buffalo (bison) on level ground. These were struck from mid-1913 until the series ended in 1938.
The coin has a face value of $50, and features a Native American plus the date of issue on one side and a Bison on the other.
more commonly called, feature a profile of a Native American on the obverse of the coin, which was a composite portrait of three Native American chiefs: Iron Tail, Big Tree, and Two Moons. The "buffalo" portrayed on the reverse was an American Bison, ...
The three Indian models were Chief John Big Tree, a Seneca; Chief Two Moons, a Cheyenne; and Chief Iron Tail, a Sioux. The buffalo on the reverse was modeled after a bison called "Black Diamond" which lived in the New York zoo.
obverse was the conception of Joe Fitzgerald and Don Everhart. The two new
reverse designs for 2005 were: the American Bison reverse designed by
Jamie Franki and Norman E. Nemeth, and the Ocean in View reverse, ...
I could wager, with the odds greatly in my favor, that the new collector of large size United States currency would choose the famous Onepapa five dollar note and the "Bison" ten over the 1862 $5 United States note or $10 issue of 1875 even though ...
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