Is This A Buffalo Nickel Broadstrike?

@jaden, can you please post the diameter of this coin? Thx.

Spence, I was told there would be no math?

Looks like 21mm on the nose. My scope won't do a full view, but I'll try with the loupe

Spence I could have been mistaken, I was using the Mrs. ruler looking through the scope. Here's the full shot, front/back. The rim seems to be uniform on both sides.

Re-measured last night, 21.25mm or there abouts. Might try to scan it and measure digitally today. On the encasing, I'd wonder why someone would encase a lower quality coin like this? Otherwise is it worth sending off for verification on a broadstrike? Thanks all!

By encased, I mean put in a "lucky nickel" or similar encasement. These encasements damage the rim of the coin permanently. As such, low grade common coins are usually the only coins ever encased in this manner. If you google search "encased nickel" you will see what I mean.

There's no need to send it anywhere for authentication, it would be a waste of money. I can assure you it is not a mint error. The diameter you measured is 1 thousandth of an inch off from the normal width of a nickel, so I'm inclined to say that the measurement device was off rather than the nickel. Regardless, there's no way a nickel struck out of collar would show only a thousandth of expansion.

We would need to see pictures to tell you for sure, but it sounds like it may be a misaligned die. Whenever you get pictures feel free to make another thread!