- Legendary design: design from 1913
- Fine silver 999: delivered Brilliant Uncirculated
- Sunshine Mint: manufacturer from the USA
- Legendary designJames Earle Fraser honors Native Americans and the buffalo
- Fine silver 999A fineness of 999/1,000 in Brilliant Uncirculated quality
- Sunshine MintThe design follows the Gold Buffalo of the US Mint
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American Buffalo
1 ounce of fine silver
American Buffalo in silver, bison side with the American bison
An American bison and the portrait of a Native American, after the designs James Earle Fraser created for the US five-cent piece of 1913. Struck as a round, without a face value.
Fraser’s choice
Two images for one country.
James Earle Fraser was born in 1876 in Winona, Minnesota, and grew up on the prairie near Mitchell, South Dakota. He studied in Paris and under Augustus Saint-Gaudens, then opened his own studio in New York.
In 1913 his five-cent piece went into circulation, the “Buffalo Nickel”. On one side he placed the portrait of a Native American, on the other an American bison. According to the Smithsonian, Fraser chose both as “indisputable representatives of the nation”.
According to the United States Mint, the nickel was thus one of the first to depart from the customary eagle or wreath. It was struck until 1938.
Several Native Americans sat for the portrait.
“My purpose was not to make a portrait but a type.”
This silver piece bears both images after Fraser’s design.
The bison
From a few dozen animals, herds grew again.
Before the mid-19th century, perhaps 30 to 60 million bison roamed North America, most of them on the Great Plains. By the 1890s there were fewer than 1,000.
Yellowstone is the only place in the US where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. In 1902 the herd there still numbered about two dozen animals. In the same year, 21 bison from two private herds were added. From both groups grew the two large herds that live in the national park today.
Since 9 May 2016, the bison has been the national mammal of the USA by law.
In silver
Fraser’s images in silver.
According to the United States Mint, Fraser’s buffalo designs are “not protected by copyright”. Private mints may therefore strike them.
On the bison side are “ONE TROY OUNCE” and “999 FINE SILVER”, on the portrait side “LIBERTY”.
It was struck by Sunshine Mint.
PortraitThe portrait, beside it “LIBERTY”
BisonThe bison
Inscription“999 FINE SILVER”
Details from the photos in our gallery.
The editions
Fraser’s bison in three metals.
Gold, silver and copper to the scale of their diameters. Your edition is marked.
Editions we can deliver are linked.
Gold32.7 mm
Silver39 mm
Copper39 mm
At a glance
- Type
- Round
- Metal
- Silver
- Design
- after James Earle Fraser
- Weight
- 1 ounce of fine silver
- Fineness
- 999/1,000
- Diameter
- 39 mm
- Mint
- Sunshine Mint
- Quality
- Brilliant uncirculated
When James Earle Fraser died in 1953, three of his important works remained unfinished.
1 Unze Silbermünze Buffalo
Die 1 Unze Silber Buffalo Medaille würdigt Amerikas Ureinwohner und den majestätischen Büffel. James Earle Frasers Design der Münze wurde schon im Jahr 1913 gefertigt und dieser hat beide Bilder Motive auf der Münze entworfen.
Besonderheiten der Medaille:
- Enthält 1 Unze Feinsilber 999/1.000
- Einzelne Medaillen kommen in Plastiktaschen
- Ab 20 Münzen kommen die Lieferungen in Plastikröhrchen ab 500 in Boxen
- Das Design dieser Medaillen ist auf das ursprüngliche Design des Gold-Buffalo von der US Mint zurück zu führen.
- Diese Medaillen besitzen keine Nennwert
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