3 leg Buffalo fake?

ecichlid

The reverse does not show the tell-take signs that I have been told are true for a 3 legger (rear leg and pee stream). If it wasn't in a PCGS slab, what would you think? No accusations here, just curious. Link

fcloud

Maybe just to hard to see in the photo.

tresgatos

It's real. One of the easiest ways to confirm a 3 - leg nickel
on the reverse is to notice how the P and U are up off the
bison's back while on a non-genuine nickel those letters
will be almost touching the animal. That's one detail that
wont be worn off by the time it gets to VF-30

ecichlid

Forgot about that, thank you!

BUFFNIXX

I once saw an unc three legger 1937-d in Cleveland Ohio that was altered but I could not figure out how. There was no indication of any leg removeal but the coin was obsiously not from the single die that we all know and love. I think the alteration may have been done by heating the coin and going into the rim and sucking out metal or somethinng. And there was no trace of that front leg. I wonder after all these years it if may have been real and from a different die. Maybe a grease fill strike thru? BUFFNIXX.

WoodenJefferson

As a Buffalo wears, the diagnostics you mentioned also wear away or become less noticeable. The E Pluribus Unum then becomes your best identifier. Somewhere along the line, somebody found a nice coin and pulled it out of circulation.