Buffalo Nickel Error?

Pictures are always helpful

It appears to have been punched post mint. It was probably done shortly after being put into circulation which is why the reverse is so smooth, It has been worn down along with the rest of the coin

Richard

Agree that it's PMD.

Your coin is damaged. Bill said exactly what any knowledged dealer would tell you. The reason the area of damage on the reverse is smooth is because the damage was done before the coin went through heavy circulation. The circulation is what smoothed out the detail of the damage.

brule
I notice you are a new member, welcome to the forum.
The rest of this post is ment merely to educate.

In your last post you stated "Evidently not going to get much help here, anyone know of a coin dealer in the Vegas area I could get to look at it?"

The "lack of help you have gotten so far has come from the following"

Mike Diamond, President of CONECA, the Combined Orginizations Of Numismatic Error Collectors of America.

Foundinrolls, Bill O'rourke, author of the Found in Rolls column in CoinWorld magazine

Coppercoins, Charles Daughtry, Author of what many consider the authoritive books on Lincoln Cent Varieties and owner of the Coppercoins website

Graceoutcast, coop, and thingee, aren't slouches either.

The gentlemen above represent more experience and knowledge than you would find in a hundred mom and pop coin shops

To give you a personal example, I have a Lincoln Cent that several different coin shops looked at and informed me that "its nothing special". When I presented it here it was recognized by Chuck and Bob as something special.
Due to their efforts on my behalf the coin has been featured in several coin magazines and recognised as one of the major finds of the past 20 years (see my avatar). I tell you this not to boast on anyone's behalf but to show you how much these men's opinion are respected by the numismatic society in general.

You have an opinion from a team of respected experts that no single coin shop could hope to muster, What you do with it is up to you but if you stick around the "experts" on this forum will be the best resource for answering any questions you may have.

Richard

Coop's example has circular damage on the obverse resulting in a circular bulge on the reverse. You have a straight edged gouge on the obverse that created a straight edged bulge on the reverse. You are simply displacing metal from one side of the coin to the other in the outline of whatever struck the obverse. A small screwdriver or chisel could easily make a mark like that. You are not going to be able to closely recreate that coin because it spent a significant amount of time in circulation after the damage occurred, thus wearing down the bulge.