1914 Buffalo Nickel Doubled Die Reverse - Unlisted

Appears to be a pretty interesting clash by the Adams apple. I'm in the DDR camp. The elongated dot confirms it for me.

Excuse my ignorance, but a single slightly misshapen dot is evidence enough to declare this a DDR? Please explain.

Well, an elongated dot is a good way to id a DDR whether it be on a Wheat cent of this Buff. I have seen many DDR on the Wheat back cents that have the 'EPU' dots looking like 'snowmen' These dote should be perfectly round and a slight movement when the die is carved will produce that effect - couple that with the incredibly FAT (northward movement) lettering such as 'FIVE CENTS' will clinch it for me.
(I know it ain't a great explanation - but it works for me)

I meant to send this off to Dr. Wiles with the last batch but forgot. It'll eventually get looked at.

Okay, the results are in. Insert [drum roll].

I sent two Buffalo nickels to Dr. Wiles for attribution, both looked like DDR. The 1918 was listed as VDDR-002, 2-R-VI, Stage B, LMDS/EMDS. It has not yet been posted to the VV website.

The 1914 in this thread was listed as VDDR-001, 1-R-VI, Stage B, LMDS/LDS. It also is not posted yet but the images are above.

As for questions about Buffalo nickel DDR's, I asked him for a comment and this is what he said on the attribution sheet: "The best PUP for the BUff Reverse is the dots. Class VI will show elongated dots, just like the Lincoln Reverse. The 14 is nice. The 18 is borderline." By "borderline he means that while the reverse is a DDR, it is only barely strong enough to be worth listing on the VV website with an attribute. But as noted, the 1914 is a pretty solid DDR, so got that one right.

Congratulations on the 2 new listings tropicalbats!

Congratulations!

I checked my 1914 because it has similar clashing. It appears to have the elongated dot. I would never have thought this was a DD. Interested to see the results.