How rare is the 1936-D 3.5 leg Buffalo??
ireichel
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According to my calculations based upon PCGS population, the 1936-D 3.5 legger is 170 times as rare as the 1937-D 3 legger, with only 23 total examples certified. Is this coin in the same class as the 18/7-D and 16/16? Your thoughts are appreciated.
Irv Reichel
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I think you might need to add a zero to those estimates.
same class as the 16/16 and the 8/7..........not a chance.
Getting back to the '36-D, I have found those three coins over a period of around 16 years and I'm sure I've looked at several thousand coins-over 60 rolls that had definately not been searched before one time. I didn't find a single 3 1/2 legger in that bunch, but the last one I found was in a junk box of fewer than 50 Buffalos.
The 1916/16 overdate is a dramatic error and very COOL. Even if it was much more common it would be worth a lot of money.
The 3 leg 37 D is also very cool. To me the 3 1/2 leg is just not that interesting, the rarity is not the issue.
The fact is that these missing leg coins are not true errors or varieties. They are from over polished and over used dies. In most of the hobby this kind of thing is looked at as a negative and the coins are worth less than a well struck coin from a new die.
The only reason the 3 leg buffalo is collected is because it had great placement of the die abrasion, if it was just the hair detail on the buffalo's back they would be worthless. A coin with only a little of the leg abraded off is just a lot less interesting than if the whole thing is gone..................Population is not the issue!