Counterfeit Or Legit 3-Legged Buffalo

I am no expert in Buffalo series, I do agree something appear altered, but take the chance and submit to ANACS. Hopefully it will come back as genuine.

I'll cast my vote for not genuine. the geniune was caused by overpolishing a very late stage die and it was paired with a late stage obv as well. This coin does not show the late stage features and as mentioned the mintmark position is different. There is only one die recognized as the 37 D three legged and this isn't it.

Also look at the date, it looks somewhat doubled, the 1 has something happen to it on it's upper half, and the 9 is filled in:

I'm no expert...but to me the mint mark on the OPs coin looks like it is set farther left and tilted. Coops coins in straight and appears to start just off the E in One not under the E

Unless there was more that one die making these three leggers than I would say it is fake or altered.

There are some reasonably educational images of genuine and false 3 legged buffalos to be found on
Google Images.

Fake.

Could there? Possibly, but no other has ever turned up.

The problem with identifying a second one would be getting people to keep an open mind about the possibility. The knee jerk reaction is people take one look, compare it to the known one, see it doesn't match and just dismiss it out of hand. You see that a lot on the online forums. Someone comes in with a 1955, 72 or 69 S cents and ask "Is that a Doubeld die?" People take one look, see it isn't the major one for that year and say No, it should look like this." and post a picture of the "Big One" completely ignoring the fact that it MIGHT be one of the others known for that year.

Still the problem with this being a possible second die is that if a second die had received an extensive enough polishing to remove the front leg, I would expect it to have similar rear leg and distant E PLURIBUS UNUM to what the first die had.