1926 Buffalo nickle
bigtonydallas
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Just received this coin. Looks like a 3 1/2 legger.
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Finest Toned Ike I've Ever Seen, been looking since 1986
It's not the 3 1/2 legger. The genuine coin has a detached inside feather which was attenuated trying to remove a clash.
The designer initial "F" on the genuine specimen is weak, and remnants of the clash show up in "E PLURIBUS UNUM" on the reverse.
Sorry.
Pete
Might be a 3.99999 Legger
I'll give ya that one.
Pete
Well I guess I will have to send it off as this could have been paired with a different obverse.
Should I send it to PCGS? The N or A guys? Lol
N_C or A_acs?
PCGS, my last economy order was only 10 days so they seem to be caught up for now. Variety attribution will add some time though. Honestly I can't tell what makes these 3 1/2 leg varieties, even the ones in coinfacts look like they have 4 complete legs.
Collector, occasional seller
If you think of a regular leg as mount everest and the 3 1/2 leg as a hill. From above if you took a picture they would look the same but at an angle you could tell the difference.
Pulled the pics out for the Buff nickEL
Here mine for comparison
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
It looks like yours. The weak spot to the left of unum. Then 3rd feather is half there.
Sorry-not the 3 1/2 legger.
Buffalo nickels could possibly be my favorite coin design!!! Wins on both sides!
Why is the OP planning to waste $25 to have that coin authenticated and graded?
Cause i think im right
This is a normal four legged bison.
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The coin does not look like a 3 1/2 leg Buff.... However, if you send it in, please let us know the results. Cheers, RickO
not a 3 1/2 legger. ill go 4 though. have a great day all
We need to add a new category to the abraded legger dies, that being the 3 and 3/4 legged bison!
Bet that would take off, just like the 2 n 1/2 feather buffs.
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I saw a real nice au 1917-d buffalo nickel for sale by Great Southern ( for some reason I keep looking at their coins).
It was what I call a “photo-legger” which means it was the die used to produce the 3 n 1/2 legged variety but with not enough leg missing to cal 3 n 1/2 legs.
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What about this 17d nickle. I know it has a major ding on the obverse.
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That's one.
I'm going to buck the trend of my buffalo peers and say you're probably on to something. I've 'made' a handful of these and think the all the markers are plausibly there.
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The mint mark location, shape, and angle certainly seem to match. That's about as far as I looked.
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Could be from the same die as the 3 1/2 legged but struck before the leg was abraded. From what I see the leg in question isn't weak enough to qualify as a 3 1/2 leg.
I'd also qualify my remarks by saying I've had a number of swing and misses too. And I most certainly have not written the book on the subject
. Still, I would have rolled the dice had I seen it.
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well the right front leg is smaller than the left front leg
so lets just call it a 3 & 3/4 legger.
depending upon how much the leg has been reduced in apparent size by die erosion or some other calamity then we could add both 3 & 3/4 and 3 & 2/3 abraded die varieties.
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These are so much fun to look for. Never know when one might come charging at your just around the corner.
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The 1917-d 3 1/2 legger seems to always have a weak strike on the buffaloes head.
Notice here that it also has a line of raised dots below the buffs belly similar to the 37d 3 legger and
also a moth-eaten back leg like the aforementioned 37d. Some of these 17d so-called three and one half loggers
are really what I refer to as “proto-leggers” with not enough leg missing to call in 3 n 1/2 legs.
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