1928-S Buffalo Nickel. MS-66 (PCGS).

This exquisite premium Gem offers smooth, lustrous surfaces and an exceptionally bold strike for a San Francisco Mint nickel from the 1920s. Bright and largely brilliant, yet enhanced by blushes of pale champagne-gold iridescence that appear to drift toward the left borders. Though more than 6.9 million examples of this issue were struck, the 1928-S is a formidable rarity in Gem grades, especially so at MS-66, as here. The Lange reference on the series notes: "Choice specimens are scarce, Gems rare, due primarily to deficiencies in strike." The present beauty shows much of Fraser's intended design motifs, here nearly full and certainly far finer than typically found for the issue. A significant Buffalo nickel strike and condition rarity that is sure to attract strong bids when it crosses the block.

PCGS# 3965. NGC ID: 22SD.