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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jperry, post: 67334, member: 3614&quot;]They are both 3 legged.</p><p><br /></p><p>They have the appearance of being cleaned, and for practical matters of appearance and grading, may as well have been cleaned. The reason for the comment (these may not be the correct technical coin terms) is because they have a dull washed out appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long term storage (30 -40+ years) in old 2X2 coins envelopes that were not made of acid free paper resulted in the surface damage and appearance you see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins stored for the same period of time in old Whitman folders with no slot for a 3 legged buffalo are fine. Coins unsorted and left in a jar also did not have this storage problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>The really sad thing is that my Dad spent countless hours carefully labeling sorting and placing many of these coins that he had in storage envelopes that he thought were designed for proper coin storage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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