1916 Buffalo Nickel Doubled Die

noodle

I was recently looking through a magazine price guide and saw a variety for a 1916 doubled die buffalo nickel. Can anyone give me a link to pictures of die diagnostics or describe the basic markers to me?

any help would be appreciated

Noodle

commoncents05

Link. Check out the date.

-Paul

Walkerguy21D

It is a very obvious, dramatic DD, and it is also very scarce. Good luck in your search!

crypto79

It's one of the king of 20th Cen varieties but you have next to a 0% chance of cherry picking one that has any date left. There are a couple out there to be found with just the feathers remaining of the doubling. On a nice one there is quite a bit of subtle doubling like the eye and hair and chin.

JMW

Go to Stacks auctions, the current auction has one coming up. Auction lot #2572 with environmental damage, and still a great find, and probably still out of the budget. David Lange's Buffalo book has plenty of information also.

crypto79

And the lord said there shall be LINK!!!!!!

noodle

<< <i>It's one of the king of 20th Cen varieties but you have next to a 0% chance of cherry picking one that has any date left. There are a couple out there to be found with just the feathers remaining of the doubling. On a nice one there is quite a bit of subtle doubling like the eye and hair and chin. >>



thanks everyone for the help. I appreciate the links.

This coin was found in the wall of a 1920s mansion in Chicago that my brother-in-law owns. He found a few coins over the years as he tore out walls and asked me to check them out for him. I saw the 1916 nickel and decided to ask. It's a shame, because the coin has AU details. It has a burn looking mark on most of the obverse. This coin shows no sign of doubling. The date is full and clearly not doubled.

thanks again for the help

melvin289

Ah heck, the bid on the one on the link is only $2. Do I hear $3?

Ron

koynekwest

It actually has a stronger spread than the 1955/55 Lincoln but doesn't present as dramatic appearance because it's a different Class of doubling. I've tried to cherry one for almost 35 years with no luck but I know of two that have been cherried off ebay-one a damaged Fine and one, amazingly, in AU58 or MS a few years ago. The first reference I've been able to find for the variety was from a 1962 issue of "Numismatic Scrapbook" magazine. It was also pictured in Spadone's books from the early '60s but the image therein was so badly re-touched that many (myself included) thought it was not a legitimate d die. It became a widely recognized variety when it first appeared in a 1976 issue of the "Greysheet."

breakdown

The coin that Commoncents linked from CoinFacts looks like an absolutely amazing example.

golfer72

Yeah one of the coolest coins out there!