(I took the liberty of switching your photos from thumbnails to full sized. You can do this yourself when you post. Look for the "Full Image" option.) (Edited out some of my erroneous ramblings here. See subsequent posts.)
Thank you, Sal. Didn't the real ones still have a ghost of the missing leg visible? I forget. (Edited out some of my erroneous ramblings here. See subsequent posts.)
If you are interested in this 1937D 3L variety/error or whatever you might call it, and are relatively new, you might like this thread from some years ago, when I was very young Jim https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-buying-education-101-3-new-7-31.63603/
Thank you everyone for your time! I value your knowledge as I’m still fairly new to this, can anyone recommend somewhere I can get it certified or inspected?
That depends on the expense, I’ve never sent anything in to be graded lol if it’s a fake then that’s what it is, no harm no foul, but it would be cool to know lol
Many were struck from the defective, over-polished die, so it would be considered a variety…imo…Spark
It looks altered to me and not worth the 30 bucks for grading fees and postage. IMO. You can see the tool marks in this pic which I downloaded cropped and rotated.
I'm an idiot. *smacks forehead* @Jinxe 's coin: Real 1937-D 3-leg: Image source: PCGS Coinfacts. Normal Type 2 reverse: Image source: National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History, via Wikimedia. Again, I'm an idiot. You were right, and I was confused. It is the front leg that's supposed to be missing! I totally forgot that. Been years since I looked at one, and I've never owned a 3-leg. But I do have a story about one... Speaking of scams and 3-leggers, I have a personal experience tale about a (real) 1937-D 3-legged Buffalo nickel which came into a coin shop I was working in back in '93. I call it: Poetic Justice, or The Scammer Who Scammed Himself. .
So yeah, @Jinxe - what you've got there is an altered coin. Sorry for getting your hopes up earlier, when I had my head in the clouds. But at least you know now, and if you ever do a Buffalo nickel collection, you can stick that piece in the slot for the 3-leg, if the album includes one. Call it a cheap hole filler. You've got yourself a “3-leg”, all right, but it's missing the wrong leg! And like a dunce, I failed to notice that at first.