1913 Nickel Patterns
Base
About This Coin
The 1913 Nickel Patterns page groups the 1913 five-cent pieces in the Design Reform Patterns (1880-1942) series: James Earle Fraser's Buffalo nickel without his initial, with a flat-topped 3 (J-1950) and a round-topped 3 (J-1951), struck at the Philadelphia Mint, and J-1954, a Type 2 coin once listed as copper that USPatterns.com reports is a copper-plated regular piece.
Specifications
Strike Types & Varieties(3)
1913 Proof Nickel Pattern - J-1789/1950
1913 Proof Nickel Pattern - J-1789a
1913 Proof Nickel Pattern - J-1790/1954
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