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So... I've got a fake 3 leg 1937-D Buffalo?

MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 15, 2024 4:41AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Vetter pointed this out over on the BST and now I think he is correct...
This is an altered 3 legger, yes?
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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 15, 2024 4:48AM

    Yes, definitely altered.
    Also looks heavily cleaned and tooled, but those are minor sins in this case.

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  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep... looks altered to me also.

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  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was going to comment when I saw it in the BST thread, but I wasn't 100% sure..

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Definitely fake. The 1937-D 3-leg buffalo is one of the easiest coins to authenticate since there are several well-known and easily discernable die markers.

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  • MFeldMFeld Posts: 13,485 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    Definitely fake. The 1937-D 3-leg buffalo is one of the easiest coins to authenticate since there are several well-known and easily discernable die markers.

    Perhaps I'm being too picky but I'd call it "altered" rather than "fake" (or "counterfeit"). I think it's a distinction worth making.

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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    interesting they tooled the hair on the obverse
    a few years ago I started a thread with many pick up points

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1007887/frequently-seen-die-markers-on-authentic-1937-d-3-leggers/p1

  • JimTylerJimTyler Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think those scrapes across the body happened when the the tool used to scrape off the leg slipped and cut across the body and elsewhere.

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Altered for sure. ;)

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have an altered 37 somewhere, I will try to find it and post photos here or in a new thread.

  • VetterVetter Posts: 852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m just glad I was able to point it out to you before a collector purchased it. They would not have been happy once they found out it was altered.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It will be interesting to see what it sells for on eBay. ;)

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That one looks awful fugly to me. I'll go no go as well

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Book it, Danno.

    Altered state - And I don't mean the movie.

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  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,680 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, it's not authentic!

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 945 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A coin carver should create a PEG LEG buff. :D

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