Grade this new buffalo from buffing

BUFFNIXX

grade my newest eBay purchase. I will be sending it in for grading.
(it does not appear to have any problems.)
thanks in advance for the help.

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dlmtorts

Wow! Great pickup! This might qualify for a "you suck"!

BUFFNIXX

I should clarify that this was purchased as a 16 doubled die obverse. I did not cherry pick it in that sense.
Just think about how many years this coin bounced around in circulation before some lucky numismatist recognized what it was.

First one I ever owned was an acid treated one in the early 1990ies and I was thrilled to own it.

UncleJoe

Nice coin. G-6 IMO.

Joe.

keets

it is a hard Variety to find and one that's easy to give up on. I just sorted about 400-500 Buffalo Nickels that we've purchased over the counter for the past several months, full date/partial date/no date into their respective container. I haven't searched through those yet, but I don't think I saw a single 1916 dated coin.



it is a rare Variety from a somewhat scarce date, so it is doubly hard.

thebeav

I am also in the G-6 camp.
You mention previously owning an acid date of this variety. I 'made' an acid date good-4, back in 1984, see pic. I remember selling it at a show and not having the papers with me at the time. The buyer didn't care. I ran into this cert in a long forgotten box not too long ago.

MFH

My first impression was its a G-6.
If you cherry picked that - you really
did well. I Was going to say you "suck"
... but it's a 6 not a 60 something.

Why is it that when I was a kid in the
60's, no one I knew even heard of the
16/16 DDO. I must have looked at over
a hundred in my life time. Never realized
what was slipping thru my fingers.

Congrats on the find.


Edit: I just read the OP's 2nd post.
So, not a Cherry Pick ! The coin is
just as nice however.

koynekwest

My impression is also a Good 6. This variety WAS known in the '60s. The first report was in a 1962 issue of "The Numismatic Scrapbook" magazine. It was also listed in Spadone's "Variety and Error"

guide from 1963. I would occasionally look for it back then but never had any luck. It wasn't WIDELY known until the CDN did a story on it in 1976

BUFFNIXX

I have seen vg08’s that did not look any better than this. Quite a few in fact. There was a slabbed 8/7-d that I examined a few days ago which was graded vg08 and did not look any better than a good-04 IMO.

ricko

My first impression was VG08.....nice find indeed. Cheers, RickO

mannie gray

Looks like a G06