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It is not consistent either. Here are 3 orders I currently have there: 15 2022-W SAEs, 2 raw early dollars (regular service), and 3 2022-W Burnished SAEs. The last of them went from the coin prison intake exactly a month later. However, I got the grades for them a week ago. The others are slowly wor...

Yeah, I agree with AU. And it is often better to get an AU because if they go UNC, something that might have gotten a pass in AU will trigger a Details verdict.

One of the more challenging Cherrypicker varieties is the 1877 FS-101 Trade dollar. It is a DDO. But it is not as commonly understood. There is weak doubling on the wheat, but nothing particularly alarming. The right stars are all doubled with strong shifts, much more than would have been expected f...

If only the Mint had struck those 2021 Morgans/Peace in 90% silver....

Gives me an idea. I'll have to ask Carr to consider striking a clad Morgan (overstrike on Ike). Probably would be an ugly beast, but never know.

It is going to get to the point where VAMs are going to need VARslab confirmation stickers on the backs of the slabs to confirm the attributions (like CAC for the grades) to be market acceptable. I am sure @messydesk wouldn't complain.

The full listings are at http://registry.ssdcvams.com/Trade/ which I generally update as I update them in my full original document. I do have thousands of images and details, beyond what is in the listings. So I can look for more thingsif we identify candidate dies.

I believe this is C-25. We have C-25.1 catalogued with the break and it was expected that there was earlier production without the break. I had a bid on one such coin in an online auction that I was sure was such a piece. But I did not win it and thus could not get it in my had for inspection. I wil...

Appears to be unlisted, both dies, though one would not have the expected the reverse to have survived to be multiply paired. The date is very high and set right. There are a couple that are close but not close enough from my recollection. As for the reverse die, the right tilt for the mint mark, es...

It always was a formidable challenge. Great to have achieved the goal.

Nice find!

How can I find a specific date and mint mark on the VAM value guide? It is all there, but has not been opened up yet. Values need to be confirmed. The Peace dollars as well. Will this be like the Vamview price guide? Yes and no. As it presents currently, the coverage is essentially over the "list" ...

blh74 wrote: ↑

Mon May 16, 2022 6:05 am

How can I find a specific date and mint mark on the VAM value guide?

It is all there, but has not been opened up yet. Values need to be confirmed. The Peace dollars as well.

Finally got cascading menus working. At the Registry, you will now see it as the way to find a census. The original complete menu list is still available as a form below this improved one. The only peculiarity, which might not be fixable is that the dates are ordered by the Philadelphia ones first, ...

I did not put in the CW or CCW designation as we all know that would just get confusing. Full slab images would be great for the rotated coins, especially inside the set designed just for them. For Morgans, I wrote an article almost a decade ago on how to precisely compute the relative die rotation ...

Thought I might note that the Trade listings are maintained on the SSDC Registry server. I convert them from Word to PDF and then to HTML, updating as additions or changes occur. The formatting from the original document is lost here and there but the content is all the same. Will spruce it up in ti...

colwillys wrote: ↑

Fri May 06, 2022 3:00 pm

Okay it is TEXAS Time .. The Texas ANA coin show JUNE 3-4-5 . DFW Arlington TX ..

I have wanted to do the TNA show for years. Maybe n=next time.

Great show. Wish I could make it. Probably will be setting up at the ANA WFoM in August. Have fun!

Changed the weather widget. Looks like it is really stable now.

I did put CSNS right after than and a small Cowtown one, since I heard one of our VAM folks might be there.

I had stopped doing this after the February 2020 Long Beach show due to the pandemic shutting things down. But since the shows are pretty much back to regular programming, I would like to see us maintain a reasonably robust listing of upcoming coin shows. I do this on the SSDC Registry, so it is not...