VAMWorld 2.0

CascadeChris wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:28 pm

...kenny wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:17 pm

20190112_100956.jpgDay 2, VAMmers at work!

JB moves so fast it's hard to randomly capture him without significant blurring!

Especially if I'm trying to track down Russ.

...kenny wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 13, 2019 10:36 pm

Woof'n Doc and Lu Lu's dill pickles!...

I was sharing them with whomever wanted one on Saturday afternoon. Two "best pickles ever" comments. They were really good.

Leaning towards VAM 6.

Not only did I get JR's presentation and VAM Thing XVI. I got JR doing me for 5N5. Mike Ferrone(sp?) and I got Ash. The sound on mine and Mike's is a bit garbled due to background noise. I'm hoping to be able to edit and capture the good stuff and remove the junk. I'm burnt to a crisp. It was a HUG...

It would seem I have become horribly spoiled by what tends to be an abundance of secondary PUP photos in the 1921-P pages, because when I tried to identify an 1882-P today I was immediately frightened. (So MANY with doubled dates... most of which I can't actually see!) But backing away was not an o...

bob259 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:10 pm

Is that Beauty and the Beast? LOL

I really should look to see if there's a working "like" button extension for phpBB available yet.

I imagine if it were more detached, with the stem totally missing, it would be listable, but in this case, probably not.

This sort of event is typically a show highlight for those who attend them. Together with VAM Thing on Friday, this makes FUN a great show to attend, even if only for the fellowship.

Pete organized a big VAM dinner at a local Italian steakhouse tonight. "Had a great time, wish you were here," and all that. 20190110_211326.jpg I can't really tag people like one would on Facebook, so those present includes, but is not limited to (left to right) lewisr2 , alefzero , vampicker , Mar...

If there is a comment on a VAM page that you know is incorrect, edit page and fix or remove it. I'd rather have a small amount of information I know I can rely on than a lot of information that I have to wonder about.

I can't see anything in the pictures. The clash looks fairly weak at the neck, so probably no letter transfer.

John: What's crazy is, my other 14.8 looks identical to the one I photographed. Well, I imagine a bouncy press isn't isolated to a single coin, and that the likelihood of any given coin being strike doubled as it is struck varies slowly over time. Put another way, if coin n is strike doubled, chanc...

DHalladay wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:53 pm

... One question: I this thing strike doubled like crazy, or is huge doubling also a feature of 14.8?

Both. Remember that repunched and strike doubled CC I posted a while back? You have a doubled die and strike doubling. Cool, educational piece, and weird as all get-out to look at.

Lots of spots on the reverse, but I don't see them on the obverse. $370 is not a bad price. Checking CoinFacts, $370 seems like a pretty typical price. Two have sold recently for over $1,000, and they both have CAC stickers. I'm guessing they're really tough on these, but you can see a little spotti...

It does look like there's a triangle in the right place for VAM 6B.

Pictures would help. Sometimes these are nothing, sometimes they're etched into the surface after someone tried removing a black spot. Sometimes they're stains from stuff that was sitting on the coin.

Cool! Of course, it was found 71 years ago by a boy who was born in 1931, but the headline makes it sound like a recent find.

Send details of what you did and what you wanted to do to me, @alefzero, and @fogie. One of us should be able to take care of it.

It looks like 2014, since all VAM 18s have the denticle and rim impressions.

Some folks that may want to dial in may have to take a 1/2 day or full day off of work. So if at all possible, can the status of a dial in number or a software link be answered by Thursday? The answer to the phone number availability (or software link) could just be an update to this post or create...