1918 d Buffalo graded by PCGS... Guess the Grade***Grade Revealed***

MrD

Its hard to grade from a picture but give it a shot

JJM

66

SilverEagles92

MS63?

tradedollarnut

63

Petescorner

65. Beautiful coin!

coinguy1

64

RichieURich

I'll guess MS-64.

DeanH

64.

-Dean

123cents

MS-65.

Shamika

Easily 65 with a fantastic strike.

cheezhed

64

DMWJR

64 - that "scratch" across the hair/forehead and under Liberty would probably prevent the 65, IMO, but the picture may exagerate what it looks like in hand.

ziggy29

I'll go with 64.

Shamika

Man, you guys guessing 64 and 63 are on crack.

tjkillian

MS-65

Tom

originalisbest

I'd say 65, though to be honest I initially thought "64+?" - but I'll go 65. WTF.

cape

that scratch isnt a scratch , its a very cool die crack along with a neat die crack on the y in liberty. this coin for the date is absolutely hammered and if it were missing the small carbon spots id guess a possible 67

gyocomgd

That looks heaps better than my 18-D in MS64. It has to be MS65 at least, and probably MS66. That is one stunning piece of work.

quattrocoins

MS65, only because of the minor scratches on the obverse.

Nice color, and awesome reverse!

DMWJR

<< <i>that scratch isnt a scratch , its a very cool die crack along with a neat die crack on the y in liberty. this coin for the date is absolutely hammered and if it were missing the small carbon spots id guess a possible 67 >>



Ah, I can tell now. It looked like a fairly deep scratch at first. Sometimes my eyes play tricks on me.

richardshipp

65 - the Y almost looks like fancy lettering

Leiana

MS 63. The lustre is nice, with some minor spotting on the reverse. The strike is okay, you can see some areas where it is not full up. There are a couple heavy marks on the reverse.

Nice coin!

-Amanda

EDIT-After looking at the other guesses, it would seem I am being terribly conservative.

caitlin

66

MFH

64

PonyExpress8

A bit too many marks for 65 so 64 in my view.

NumisOxide

MS64

majorbigtime

65

grayroads

I'd say 64.

originalisbest

Technically I think the crevice on his chin is a minor lamination, versus a die crack. The reverse quality is what led me to veer towards 65, anyway. That's a very nice branch mint Buff.

cape

originalbest, the crevice on his chin is not a lamination ,it is just very well struck showing that detail.

JoesMaName

64 Great coin - fantastic picture

originalisbest

Fair enough ed, I think you're quite right (with my excuse that the light from the angle of the pic temporarily blinded me. )

originalisbest

Did I mention the reverse is awesome? Rilly nice.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

65

DRUNNER

65. Strike is there . . originality is there.

Drunner

Numismanic

65

gyocomgd

As the answer to that grade may still be a ways in our future, here's my MS64 to compare it with.

SamByrd

imo its a super nice ms63, I think it is in a MS64 PCGS slab though.

Shamika

66 is certainly appropriate for this issue. If anyone were to review auction archives, they'd see that this date often looks like crud even in 64.

Leiana

I failed miserably.

-Amanda

yellowjacket

Shamika,

As ususal, you are right on target. You don't see this strong a strike and deep luster on an 18-D. I feel the light carbon flecks add that original touch for an early 20th century coin.

I was thinking a 65, but a 66 is one powerful grade for this date/MM.

Good call. You are the voice of reason when it comes to Buffalos.

yellowjacket

Amanda,

Don't beat yourself up too much. You are one of the most studious/knowledgeable YNs on these boards. Keep at it.

BTW I love that sig line pic you have.

Leiana

<< <i>Amanda,

Don't beat yourself up too much. You are one of the most studious/knowledgeable YNs on these boards. Keep at it.

BTW I love that sig line pic you have. >>



Thanks! This was a really difficult coin.

Thanks about the picture also, that was my first buffalo!

-Amanda

Shamika

<< <i>I feel the light carbon flecks add that original touch for an early 20th century coin. >>


Yellowjacket - I agree 100%. A coin with a few small well hidden carbon flecks is the ideal coin in my book.

DMWJR

Awesome!