1916/16 Buffalo Nickel

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Frost, you can feel some comfort though, that's a nice looking full horn 1916. Hard to find in that condition.

Spenc, do you have other photos of your DDOs? The one you posted isn't 16/16 either.

Here is a picture of mine also for comparison.

Concur with the above comments, neither the OP, nor the coin posted by Spencerj72 are the DDO. This is a STRONG doubled die, obvious even in lower grades. Even without a visible date, there are other points of doubling pointed out by Tonyqt, to identify this one.

I did see what you are referring to inside the loop, but without shaper images, I personally can't tell what it is; could be a number of things. Regardless, there are no signs of doubling that I can see.

There might be something inside the 6, but we would need better pictures. Even if there is, without all the other die characteristics it would never pass as the DDO. It would never get slabbed as one and no one would pay the money that the real one commands.

I understand you were having a tough time with the pics hope these have helped. Actually if you look at the whole coin you are correct you should be able to diagnose even a well well worn coin. I have gotten to the point I really don't even feel the need to even have the date at all given thi chin, neck, braid,ribbons, feathers, and anything else you look at is doubled just look to the left works for me.

@ Spencer, there are no signs of doubling in any of the coins you have posted, these are not doubled dies. Please start your own thread if you want opinions on your coins, posting those here is just going to cause confusion to those looking for die markers and images on actual examples.