thats a nice one! sorry if it was said already, but is it toned gold? i ask because i seen a graded '38 ms66, that was totally gold, it even looked dipped. and i almost got it, because i didn't think that color toning was common on buffalos. his premium for the tone, was to much above book value for me though.
John -- you have to understand that both pcgs and ngc make a ton of money slabbing and reslabbing the thousands and thousands of high grade 1938-d buffaloes out there. These coins were saved buy the boatload in pristine unc condition. I have seen coins in ms67 holders that you would swear should be ms69 -- but is seems they will give out an ms68 only very rarely. They are by design keeping the population of ms68's to only a handfull and all the people having the already slabbed ms67's want to get that extra point and go from a $200 coin all the was up to a $5000 coin. So many of these ms67 beauties get cracked out and resubmitted. Good luck to you on submitting this coin. tom arch buffnixx
'38Ds come toned gold all the time, and usually with booming luster and great strikes. There's no reason to pay extra for the color. Like GDJMSP, I am not surprised in the slightest that that date is what you posted. I think average circulated for the date is MS66.
View attachment 91596 View attachment 91597 View attachment 91598 View attachment 91599 View attachment 91600 Anyone know what this would Grade? i have an entire roll of the same grade. Also would you think this would be a double D ?
