VAMWorld 2.0

That's going to be a great sale! The only question is whether there'll be enough money in the "room" to do the coins justice.

The NNP has posted all of their Symposium videos from CSNS. My ramblings are mostly at a basic, introductory level, but If you're interested in watching, here's the link.

RogerB's talk about doing research is among those that are availalble.

Is there a suggested way to volunteer for a die study with somone? I'd be willing... but being able might pose an issue for me. I'd be open to trying to make it work, though. Thanks again John^2... I would contact LateDateMorganGuy for guidance, as he has done many. What will be tricky with 1896 is...

Put me down for VAM 17, as well. Cataloging minutiae is only appropriate in the context of an exhaustive die study.

Time to give that seller an orange hoodie.

Another bit of security to ensure the message received wasn't garbled would have been a checksum word. This would be the last word of the transmission and would be generated by summing the indices of each code word and using the sum as an index for a checksum code word. Probably rarely necessary in ...

I would think that "Coinage Month June" could have been similarly encoded into a single word for extra security and cost reduction.

I would arrange with Fogie to have necessary pieces sent for comparison.

I'd have to see it, but I'd probably revise VAM 2, because if the current VAM 2 listing is inaccurate, it's fixable so that it reflects exactly one die pair.

Topics that come to mind for 1904 include the ramping down of production, especially in New Orleans, and the defective date punch.

Please refrain from discussing politics and politicians here. While parts of the deleted posts were gray area discussions of monetary policy, other parts weren't.

The 1971 red and white book is the oldest VAM book, as it is the first collaboration between Leroy and Mallis. The 1965 book with the black and polka-dot cover is the first book that has Leroy's die numbering nomenclature in it. It also has catalog numbers that would become those used in the VAM boo...

A Peace dollar value guide has yet to be assembled for the registry. Until then, auction prices realized are your best bet. There's also a "What's it Worth?" forum here to get answers on single coins.

I was about to make a crack about there being a full moon, but then realized that would just be pouring gas on this thread.

It was moved because it hadn't been observed. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That said, the die polishing lines on your coin need to match those shown on the 65A page (and those on a 65A coin that aren't shown) exactly for it to be considered to be VAM 65. I can't tell from here if they do.

Unlikely I'd list that as anything other than VAM 25A. It may or may not be a later die stage than the 25A discovery coin. There are so many cracks on the obverse that it'll take a lot of coins to know how and in what order they all developed. Only after this happens will I consider adding detail to...

Missing from the progression for that reverse were the two that came earlier, but as they're dated 1878, it's pretty obvious where they go. Any time you get one die used in 8 different die marriage, that's a cool thing. When it spans 2 years, even more cool.

This novice could digest that a little easier if it wasn't in a right to left format. Is that a numismatist thing? I did like seeing that census for this date in the attribution guides. Kudo's to someone. Just happened to be how we laid them out on the table. We decided we needed to document it, so...

C'mon you just need multiple examples of each to place side by side and stare at them for hours, passing them back and forth after dinner. It helps if you have at least a couple of people that have no deep interest in varieties that agree to dinner, with no idea a lengthy research session is on the...

Saturday at a big show when the dealer is gone but the plastic tablecloth is still there, you have a blank canvas upon which to study the progression of the 1879-S B2a reverse. IMG_0454.jpg 56, 149, and 66 may not be in exactly the right order, and it may never be possible to determine the right ord...