Buffalo nickels are not only nostalgic coins but also potentially worth much more than five cents to rare coin collectors. Designed by Sculptor James Earle Fraser in 1911, they were in circulation ...

72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm.) Cain, Corrinne and Albion Fenderson. "Collecting with Heart: The Collection of Albion Fenderson.” Native Peoples 14, no. 2 (2001): 74.

The Buffalo nickel (sometimes called the Indian Head nickel) was produced from 1913 to 1921 and 1923 to 1938. A five-cent coin made of copper-nickel, it depicts the bust of a Native American ...