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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 9, February 28, 2016, Article 16

MORE ON THE WRONG-WAY BUFFALO NICKEL

Regarding the "Wrong-Way Buffalo" nickel referenced in the Andy Griffith Show article last week, John Frost writes:

Of course, such a coin could exist - a full brockage would have the buffalo pointed the wrong way. A planchet whose front side is struck by the back of another coin adhered to the obverse die (die cap). Of course, the wrong-way buffalo would also be incuse! I wonder if such a coin exists out there in Errorland?

I asked E-Sylum sponsor and error coin expert Fred Weinberg, who writes:

Although I know of just a very few partial brockage Buffalo Nickels, I’m not aware of any full brockage mirror-image brockage reverse Buffalo’s.

This series was one that had the upper or hammer die was the reverse die, and the bottom or anvil die was the obverse die.

Andy shows Barney wrong-way Buffalo nickel I believe that Andy was referring to a ‘backwards’ Buffalo as an error, but without any knowledge of a brockage error coin - probably something a writer wrote for the scrip, like the “Inverted Jenny” stamp, or, maybe he picked the Buffalo Nickel because of the popularity of the Three-Legged variety, and this was his different spin on it, making up a new error on the coin.

He could have said something like “It’s a Silver Dollar with the Eagle on the back looking the other direction”, etc.

That’s my take on the conversation in the show…….

Thanks guys! -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
WRONG-WAY BUFFALO NICKEL IN ANDY GRIFFITH EPISODE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n08a33.html)

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