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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Moderator
 United States
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That cut on the reverse is gonna bring it down quite a bit
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Pillar of the Community
United States
812 Posts |
I'll say F-15.
Decent hair detail, most of horn.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi Thad,
Another key date!
A genuine 3-legger has a series of raised lumps in the field below the buffalo, almost looking like the beast was, well, relieving itself. I think I can see this feature on your coin. The hoof is visible, as it should be. So, hopefully this is the genuine article.
The scratch may cause NGC to reject this coin, even if they agree it is genuine. If it were mine I'd send it to ANACS where a genuine coin will get a slab even if they decide the scratch qualifies as damage.
As far as grade is concerned, there are some VF-30 slabbed examples on the Heritage auction archives site with less detail than your coin. It fully deserves a solid VF for detail. It would need more horn to stretch to EF. Just my opinion!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with a VF-30, but I think some authentication might be nice. I am certainly not an expert, but the surface looks kind of whizzed around the missing leg. Of course if you want to just send it to me, I will put it in the blank hole in my Buffalo Dansco and call it good!
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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It's 100% genuine, I took it to my dealer yesterday and he looked very, very closely at it for me. It's going to NGC because I'm sending to NCS first to see if they can remove the green meanie from it.
Thanks everyone!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I don't know about this one.......as okie-colin pointed out, the area where the leg was seems to have been worked on. The scratch may earn a BB as well. I will be interested to see what the boys at ngc have to say.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I am glad you say you are sending it to NCS first because I think that scratch will keep it out of a NGC holder but NCS will encapsulate it for you like ANACS does if they deem NGC can't because of problems
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Valued Member
United States
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I am not sure on the 3 legger aspect myself
but as far as grade, and if graded tight,
it just barely made VG8. full rims are requisite
for that grade. naturally the rev. gets the grade here.
a normal ngc would probably give it a VG10, anacs an F
best I can do. hope it is a genuine 3 legger for you.
if so, I would say send it to anacs.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I sure do hope it comes back graded. With opinions ranging from VG-8 to VF-30, I'm intrigued to know how the "professionals" grade it!
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VF-25 I think it makes that
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