Buffalo Nickel Question?

Does anyone have a 1930-S 8 legged or a 1935-D 2 legged Buffalo Nickel they could show me. From what I understand these 2 coins were pretty much ignored because of the popularity of the 1937-D...

 

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The rare spider buffalo is a beast to behold!

 

Not a buffalo collector, but never heard of these varieties.

 

Nothing in Redbook about them, nothing on the net either when googled.

 

I tried googling it also. Now to get more info from the original poster...

 

They're not listed in my "All About Buffalo Nickels" book.

 

Ron Pope's book -"Buffalo Nickels - The Abraded Die Varieties" shows 2 different "Two Legged" varieties -the 1935 P, and a 1936 P mint. The 1936 example has a nearly correct copper-nickel alloy rather than the usually seen lead. - Both are contemporary counterfeits. There is no mention of an "8 legged" coin anywhere though. -I highly recommend this book for anyone who collects buffalo nickels.

 

Years and years ago, I recall a "8 legged" buffalo on eBay, but it was a MD reverse. I don't recall if it was a 30-S, as I lost interest after seeing the photo. One of those "only one in existence" ads. There are no major DDR for 1930-S that I am aware of.

 

I have never heard of these either thats why I ask. They are suppose to be from abraded dies and they never got the recognition like the 37-D 3 legger got. I thought that maybe a buffalo nickel collector would have one of them on hand to share with us. But, if no-one has ever heard of them I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

 

I can post the picture in the book this evening. It just looks like it was struck with very little pressure, That's why the right rear leg, and the right front leg didn't show up. Hence the name "two legger". A lot of other detail didn't show up either.

 

OK, thanx I'll be looking forward to seeing it...

 

I hope you can tell from these terrible pictures. The paragraph below the picture gives an explanation of the coin.

 

These pictures may be a little clearer.But not much.

 

Am I reading that right, a lead counterfeit?

 

This one was actually a copper-nickel counterfeit. But most were made out of lead.

 

Thanx black-dog and all. Its funny how people take to curtain coins and not others, especially coins from intentionally altered dies and abraded dies. I am still very curious why people are drawn to these coins when many of our most talented experts will shun them. I guess thats what makes coin collecting one of the most favorite hobbies in N. America...

 

I finally got it to post a clearer picture of the words.

 

So we are not talking about a genuine Mint error?

 

It's possible that this is one of the coins that Abe has heard about.