Is that buffalo has 3 legs?

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NO! The three legged variety was from Denver mint not San Fran mint seeing this is even a 37'

 

Thank you. How many legs can you see on the photos? Forget about varieties.

 

Lemme see.............1, 2, 3, 4. Nope! Four legs, not three.

 

Close but no cigar, I was hoping when I saw theemail

 

the owl say 3 though..............

 

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Marcus has answered your question New Member, but. good for you. Keep up your searching. those Buffs. You never know what you might find.

 

Thank you for advice.

 

Actually Marcus jumped to a conclusion and didn't address the question. Does this buffalo nickel have three legs? (The fact that it isn't a D mint coin is immaterial.)

My answer is I can't tell from the image and the odd coloration. In hand I might be able to tell.

 

We need to factor the point (warning, opinion follows) that the "real" 3-Leg Buffalo is an anomaly of an "error," simply die polishing - a thing which can happen to any die at any time - which happened somehow to become an outrageously-popular "error coin." Dies losing details to polishing is hardly uncommon and usually not a value-added proposition, at least not to the level of the 3-Leg. The example here seems to show weak leg details - as Conder said, difficult to say for sure due to the color - but more importantly, even if the leg is weak from polishing, does it really matter in the grand scheme of things?

 

I see environmental damage that sort of masks the right front leg, but it is there.