VAMWorld 2.0

Sorry to be so slow but I am knee deep in my other project and not checking here as often as I should As I have been cautioned over the years by JB and others, with a powerful enough microscope you can find so many things that you drive yourself crazy There are 27 of these on the web site ranging fr...

I have been away on another project and just found this post. I will check some coins tomorrow. It is not unusual for the 1881-O to have some chatter inside the Mint mark and not be noted. Did you check www.1881o.com for a match?

After months of working a different site, I believe I have figured out how to convert the 1881-O web site to WordPress This came after a conversation with JB earlier this week, but I believe it is possible The current site has about 12,000 images in it and bringing all of them forward isn't practica...

Great research and find as always

It would seem to me that PL DMPL is a measure of reflectivity, not condition unless the condition interferes with the reflectivity. Grade would be an indication of circulated or not. In theory a PL or DMPL coin should be attainable at any grade. But the practical side of it says that at some grade o...

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I am up a little early this month on the newsletter.

http://www.1881o.com/2022-07.html

You will see in the letter that I may have a longer term solution for this web site, so all is not lost!

Well RogerRock's explanation is probably the best I have seen, and a little more restrictive than I have seen in the past. The rest we would probably label as early indications of die failure at the rim.

I am having a little trouble following the back and forth here, but if we believe this to be a 50A then I have a lot of comparison material http://www.1881o.com/50a.html 27 coins and 11 of them are AU58 or above. Both sides of this coin show a little bit of the issue being described http://www.1881o...

A unique find as always, thanks.

As we all know grandchildren are great, but not necessarily good for productivity.

Ours have just left for the year and I am just getting my June update out.

http://www.1881o.com/2022-06.html

Please see my note on Adobe and where they/I am heading

Hope everyone is having a happy and safe summer.

Here are my hanging orders right now PCGS.jpg The bottom one is several Comitia Americana medals and they seem to really struggle with them My guess is that the number of graders for them is very low and this is probably outsourced to someone The top one is nothing more than Silver Eagle Proofs, but...

I guess I am just venting to be venting, but the slowdown at PCGS on grading and imaging is getting worse not better with my orders. I was cutting them a lot of slack during COVID, but the fun goes out of a lot of the collecting when a coin sits for three months. Heck, sometimes I cannot even rememb...

I think that opportunity has a lot to do with this discussion. Going to shows or dealers is out of my reach unfortunately, so I do a hybrid where I look for slabbed but unattributed VAMs. When your sole source is the internet slabbed coins avoid a lot of heartaches, but also gives a lot of opportuni...

Got me there!

I guess things just don't go according to plan right now no matter how we try. In the past three months we have lost two friends not to COVID but to just old age, which begins to date me a bit The 1881-O newsletter for March through May is now up and sorry it took so long, but it seems like everythi...

I have also had an issue with Trueviews and it seems like they lag way behind. Right now I have a group that was returned on March 23 pending the images. I am still pending images. Customers are hard to get and retain, easy to lose. I had hoped with new management that things might change, but I bel...

I was cutting PCGS a lot of slack because of COVID, but there has been plenty of time for them to recover their office.

I am now doing pretty good if I can get an order processed in 3 to 4 months.

Anyone have an idea what is going on?

Interesting note because of my last note from Leroy. Leroy concedes that VAM 1 might be mythical and not exist. I assume that his comment was more than the 1881-O series that I inquired about. If we assume (as I do) that VAM 1 is "Exactly as intended by George Morgan" then that coin might not exist ...

Our 2021 taxes are past due?