There is only one detached leg buffalo nickel. That coin is dated 1937 and was minted in Denver. Throw that coin in your Cherrypickers' Guide fund. When you get the guide you can look for real die varieties.
There is a 2005 nickel with a detached leg variety, also a speared one. @Brandi Wilson To answer your question yes it is! Cherrypicker!
The OP photo is not as detached as the example in post #4. It does seem slightly detached. A comparison photo of a non detached one would help.
I am not seeing it as a detached leg. There needs to be more space and separation between the top of the leg and the body.
Ok that's cool. Just wanted to check it out with you guys before I held on to it. Thank you for taking a look at it for me.
The 2005 detached leg bison coin is a real mint variety because they over polished the die. the spiked bison coins is from a die scratch that happened after the die was made and put into use.
The detached leg bison coins are easily spotted . There is a lot of complete separation between the top of the inner leg and the bison's body. The photo in post #4 is one of the detached leg coins . I have quite a few of them and these were only made with one die.
The photo in post # 6 is a non detached leg coin. the detached leg ones are extremely easy to spot soon as you see one. I can spot them without a magnifying glass.
The post #6 photo I was just using as a comparison like he had asked. I knew it was attached. Thank you though.
Yes thank it. I just wanted to compare that photo to the OP. You can see in Paddy 54's photo how much separation there is.
I bet some of you don't know that the die that struck the widest detached leg bisons has been confirmed as to why this die was ground and polished so harshly. It was because of the strong clash that made the peeing bison coins. So this one die struck the peeing bison coins first then ground off and created the easy to see det. leg coins.
Unlikely to have a grease fill in a shallow detail area like that. A shallow area in the design is a HIGH spot in the design in the die. Grease fills tend to be in low areas of the die that correspond to high spots in the design.
definitely exists. This is not mine. These are fairly common, common enough the coin shows on TV were selling them up until 2006 or so, they were hot at first with the catchy name and throw back to the 1937 3 leg hype, but crashed out a couple years later, maybe a raw one sells for $8-10, a graded one $12-$25 or so in mid MS. there's a bad taste on these for a lot of people that paid over $100 for them in 2005-2006 when the population was unknown still. It happened to many dies it's a low spot, the detail there gets abraded out of the die when they go to fix it to keep using a die longer.
I'd have to see a better/closer picture of that ANACS coin. Even blowing up the image it doesn't really look like one.
