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.
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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