1916 Buffalo Nickel Doubled Die

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• commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭

  August 31, 2011 3:35AM

  Link. Check out the date.
  
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• Walkerguy21D Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 31, 2011 4:03AM

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

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  August 31, 2011 4:11AM

  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.

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• JMW Posts: 497 ✭

  August 31, 2011 6:13AM

  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.

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• crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭

  August 31, 2011 9:58AM

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

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• noodle Posts: 18

  August 31, 2011 5:20PM

  
  
  << <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

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• melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭

  August 31, 2011 5:28PM

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

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• koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2, 2011 3:20AM

  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."

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• breakdown Posts: 2,258 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2, 2011 4:12AM

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

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• golfer72 Posts: 3,588

  September 2, 2011 9:56AM

  Yeah one of the coolest coins out there!

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