Mintage: 5 Million

Date Found: 3/21/2025

Location: Mt. Horeb, WI

Design Features:

• Obverse (Front):

  • Features a composite Native American profile based on three real individuals: likely Iron Tail (Sioux), Two Moons (Cheyenne), and possibly John Big Tree (Seneca), though Fraser never confirmed definitively.

  • Bold “LIBERTY” inscription along the rim.

  • Year “1913” placed just beneath the neck.

• Reverse (Back):

  • A standing American bison (often called a buffalo, hence the nickname).

  • Modeled after Black Diamond, a bison from the Central Park Zoo in New York.

  • “FIVE CENTS” appears prominently on a raised mound of dirt beneath the buffalo.

  • “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” and “E PLURIBUS UNUM” arch around the top.