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No apologies necessary. We are all in this together. Hang in there, and thank you.

Nice!!
Congratulations.

Tekkie1 wrote: ↑

Sat May 21, 2022 1:49 am

A nice acetone bath would be good.

That's what I thought; it has already had an overnighter... without much to show for it.

Mitch says the gouge at star-U is the VAM 1G reverse (thank you Mitch!)... but the gouge at star-U is the only thing that fits with 1G – and none of the other PUPs on the 1G page are on my coin.

This coin was in a small group of D-mint coins I recently got, and I am profoundly clueless. Any VAM help would be greatly appreciated. -- There are no cracks anywhere. -- There are some decent scribbles. -- There are finger feed areas at TA and OF. -- Perhaps the biggest PUPs are lines from the den...

That is a major achievement. Congratulations!!

Cracks going to both of the Us in PLURIBUS is strange. The best suggestions I can come up with are a late die state of:
3BX
3Q2
14A2

It's important to keep in mind that, of the 450 different 1921-P VAMs that are currently known, 41B has the most examples registered at SSDC -- which by at least that measure makes it the most common 1921-P VAM. Having said that, prices for them can and do vary wildly . The price for generic 1921-Ps...

Must be a term someone made up at the time to describe the off-centerness, but it never stuck. Such a coin showing up in a GSA holder would be significant even then, and much more so now. My WAG is $10K or more.

@fogie
Surely The Master can help?

I can't find anything in the scribbles or die crack break guides for this coin, even though it has very clear examples of both. Can anyone help? First is yet another long, bold crack from the denticles above F in OF that goes through the F and left wing and into the top of the right wreath (where it...

I can't even begin to believe that this unfortunate thing looks correctly graded in person:

Good to hear!
What's the chance that PCGS said it was a "mechanical error"? Since, of course, it never makes attribution mistakes.

Have fun with this one.
It's in a PCGS straight graded holder.

JASONKFLO wrote: ↑

Thu May 12, 2022 2:39 am

It looks AU Details Cleaned to me.

Agreed.
And cleaning drastically reduces both value and collector interest.

It seems like the PCGS attribution Department couldn't correctly identify it's own a** even if it used a mirror and had an assistant to give it directions.

Jason: 3A1 and 3A2 have often been sold/attributed as just 3A, so it gets confusing. Prices have also changed a lot over the years. Here's what I have: 1891-O 3A 53 PCGS Dec-18 VQ $1,069 1891-O 3A 53 NGC Apr-15 H $353 1891-O 3A 50 PCGS Dec-09 store $2,000 1891-O 3A 50 NGC Aug-12 H $200 1891-O 3A 50 ...

WOW!
Regardless of which LN VAM it is, that's a heck of a 'pick. Looks XF to me. Congrats!

Received my 2 coins yesterday Pat and I am delighted.
Thanks so much.