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Counterfeit Or Legit 3-Legged Buffalo

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 Posted 05/21/2016  1:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MontCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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 Posted 05/22/2016  06:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Only one die for the three leggers.
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 Posted 05/22/2016  06:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There are some reasonably educational images of genuine and false 3 legged buffalos to be found on
Google Images.
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 Posted 05/25/2016  9:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bandsdean to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not genuine IMO. Sorry.
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 Posted 05/29/2016  12:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add weerdsteev to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Fake.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  1:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GoldenChest to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Could there have been other dies that aren't "the" die, produce varieties of this variety? Surely more than one became over polished in the M-LDS.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  7:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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I say, "No good." The hind legs should appear moth-eaten. The Indian's neck and forehead should have more chatter. I wouldn't buy it. Just my five cents.
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