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I live in the Boise, Idaho area. On Monday this week I put a rare VAM in the mail (regular 1st Class Insured) that a good friend in the San Francisco area had let me borrow to photograph. On Wednesday this week -- 48 hours later -- he called to say it had arrived!! :o Just when you think you know wh...

86A

It's a Denver coin whose mint mark was hit and damaged by something, perhaps the edge of another coin.

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colwillys wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:35 pm

send her my way

That is uber cool.

That is excellent!!
Looks like corduroy.

What did you do do that poor coin?

ashmore86 wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:28 pm

I need some help with a good number of the 21’s but should have them done very soon.

Just sent you a text Ash!

colwillys wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:14 pm

Dennis should I send this to LVA for revision ( finger gouge at ST ) .

I suggest asking messydesk first; I don't have enough experience sending finger feed gouge coins to LVA to know what his inclination toward them is.

Both of my VAM 58s have light beveling in the denticles above S _O like your does, but neither have a finger feed gouge in ST.

I really hope there will be some scribbles on the P-mint coins,

Jason: 1901 VAM 3 is one of a handful of VAMs that has keen crossover appeal into the general (non-VAM) Morgan market, which means higher grade examples tend to be expensive, even though prices have eased in recent years. Here is what I have in those two grades: 1901- 3 50 PCGS Jan-09 TT $2,415 1901...

Jason:

Same questions as always:
-- raw or certified?
-- certified by whom?
-- attributed on holder?
-- problem-free or not?
-- white or toned?
-- any visual distractions (splotches, spots, fingerprints, etc)?

Gary:

That is sweet!
Thank you for showing it.

Ok, gotta start by saying this is a general observation and not aimed at ANYONE in particular (certainly not you Bob, I was more than happy knowing I was no where near the top of the vaccine list...), but this is another absolutely HILARIOUS piece of the "human condition"... 560,000 Americans have ...

Bravo to lured-in, vamnuke, kurt, sticoin and harfield for being brave enough to guess so high.

But it wasn't high enough!!

I've got a reMarkable (tablet) that is phenomenal for doing this. If you send me pictures, I can easily mark them up and send them back. That is, if you're talking about pictures of coins... not your, um, reverse side on some scanner... Thank you gentlemen... and Fogie... for your assistance. The t...

It's in a PCGS holder.
The grade is amazing.
Have fun guessing.

Once again, my attribution failure and great frustration was due to a missing piece in the die crack break guide. I really hope I am not the only one who winds up buying unneeded duplicates because of such a simple thing that, when fixed, eventually benefits many others down the road. I have already...

I can provide photos of the cracks for a coin that currently does not have a listing in the 1921-P die crack break guide, but who knows how to create the lines on the obverse and reverse templates?

Shoot... it is a D2. What a dorf I am.

Update:
No it's not a D2. It's a D1 like I first thought. But it's not in the &#^(@!! D1 die crack break guide, despite having several very large cracks. ARGH!!

ljs123 wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 7:55 pm

I haven’t had much time form VAMs in the last couple of months.
But the ONE crack makes me think of my 66A DC that I think is now an 86A?

It sure looks like the identical cracks!
This is a D1 isn't it???