VAMWorld 2.0

I'll be at table 1860 this year.

SilverToken wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:21 pm

OK

Then is it just considered a clash on the denticles, crushing them 1/2 way down?

Not a clash at all. A clash is when dies hit each other and cause subsequent coins to show the after-effects. Did you happen to catch the doubled stars?

I don't see a collar clash on that coin.

Maybe, maybe not.

demetri wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 2:57 am

How can that be? is it circulated then? How can the surface be PL if it has wear?

Light wear that results in an AU58 grade can still leave sufficient mirrors in the fields to qualify the coin for a PL designation. I haven't seen a 55PL, if the mirrors are still there, it should be graded PL.

I don't see anything that would make me think to list another stage. 9A has a weak clash, 9 doesn't have a clash. Your looks like it might have a second, weaker clash, but it's not listable.

Rotation under 15° isn't considered a big deal. Other features of the coins will help with the attribution more than the rotation will.

If there's no dash under the 8 and no doubled arrows, I'd call it VAM 5.

DHalladay wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 06, 2022 1:52 pm

The term I first heard about 25 years ago was "orange peel". I was told it's fairly common on 1901-Ps and I've seen it many times since on that date.

This thread has a lot of good stuff about "orange peel."

Lots of changes to the 80-S listings, making it a little easier to attribute that date. Former 7A is 122. since it's not related to VAM 7. 45A is now VAM 124, for a similar reason. 124 has the reverse shared with some 79-S's and the obverse of VAM 63, which shares a reverse with a few others, which ...

vamsterdam wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:38 pm

78s v96 should never have been removed. I still have the vam 96 79s and it has die gouges in the lower hair that i have never been seen on vam 43.

Can I borrow it and a VAM 43 during the ANA show so that John R and I can study how they're different?

Plausible, but nothing convincing from those pictures.

keilg1 wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:39 pm

According to the oracle in the Matrix... you created the scenario by the power of your thought.

The next and more important question knowing this is: What new and exciting future reality are you willing to create?

Temet nosce, my friends...

You're thinking of a different kind of magic smoke.

I knew I wanted a new light for my microscope for a while, and I finally got around to ordering one last night. My currently light, which has probably lasted over 10 years, caught wind of me doing this. The bulb started flickering today and then it started smelling like magic smoke. Looks like I'll ...

Out in front of the ANA HQ there's a coining press. Last couple times I taught the Morgan class there, I tried to explain what moved where and how when a coin was struck. What would be neat is annotated illustrations that show the movement of a planchet through the press and what parts are moving th...

And just to finish fixing it, 79-S VAM 96 has been killed as was intended.

Impossible to be sure from the pictures, but they seem to be random, incidental lines and marks from being handled, not a coherent patch of lines from a cleaning. Tilt and turn under a single light and see if there's a patch that suddenly pops out. That's what a TPG will call out as a cleaning.

I can un-kill that one in my database, as if it were never killed. JohnR had sent me a kill list back in March, and this was on it, although tentative.

Check VAM 13. @HawkeEye should be able to verify with actual coins.

SilverToken wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:05 pm

The big elephant in the room question.....

Does PCGS through their insurance use PCGS posted values of the coin(s) that was stolen/lost to make you whole?

They state that they use the fair market value, not to exceed the declared value.