Invest Now! 1st production low Mintage The new American Buffalo Gold coin’s obverse and reverse designs feature images originally prepared by noted American sculptor James Earle Fraser, once a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, for America’s 5-cent coin (nickel). That popular coin, known as the Indian Head, or Buffalo, nickel and showcases the native beauty of the American West. The Native American depiction on the coin’s obverse is believed to be based on three different Indian chiefs – two of whom were named by the designer as Chief Iron Tail and Chief Two Moons – who modeled for Fraser as he sculpted its design. Conflicting statements exist on the third Indian as being either Chief John Big Tree of the Onondaga tribe, or John Two Guns, son of White Calf. 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. In the first year of the coin’s issuance, 1913, there were two distinct
varieties, the first showing the bison on a mound and the second with the base
redesigned to a thinner, straight line. American Buffalo Gold Coins bear the
original Fraser Type I design. American Buffalo Gold Proof Coins
An official Certificate of Authenticity will accompany each coin. American Buffalo Gold Bullion Coins
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