VAMWorld 2.0

All with two clashes show the transferred lettering, and so call them VAM 15A. I'm pretty sure the third clash wipes out the transferred letters. Applying simply the "letter transfer" rule, this would be called VAM 15. Of course, that causes confusion with what must be a rather rare unclashed versio...

I'll look into the certificate stuff tonight.

bigjayvee wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:00 am

Good read!!! Problem is when ever I enter the link and finish reading,can't get back to forum.Back arrow leaves page blank. Any one else having this problem ?

Yes. I need to figure out what the deal is with browser history.

PacificWR wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:23 pm

Good job John. Really like the gallery option. Is the gallery option going to be standard?

Yes. It can be put on any page. I'd encourage its use for full-coin shots as well as collections of "additional photos" that aren't primary pick-ups on a coin.

I've been working on automating the importing of the old wiki into a new one. Naturally, the markup is not the same between what was exported from Wikispaces and what needs to be imported into Mediawiki, Mediawiki ignores line breaks between text lines, and there are some characters in filenames tha...

J.Austin wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:41 pm

It will be in hand shortly. Don't think it is a 5A.

I didn't even look at the references for that guess. I trained myself to check VAM 5A whenever I see the eagle's left wing look like that and there are no scribbles.

5A?

Are scribbles not a help?

It used to be just strategically placed bag marks looked like doubling, but now you have to consider slab scratches, too.

VamHelsing wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:26 am

I'm not able to access the link...

I ran into this earlier today in the Chrome browser on my PC, but it works on the Chrome browser on my phone. I have a note to myself to find out why. Try right-clicking or ctrl-click and opening in a new tab.

I seem to recall a story about these Scarface pieces with the circle of toning on the reverse. Something like these were mounted on wood as part of a clock. The maker just happened to pick a couple of rolls of these for his work. Does this ring a bell with anyone else? It sounds familiar, but I mig...

Nice results, indeed, and not even the latest die stage.

If the 1884 J-1731 was simply part of a one-off "die trial in copper" set made for A. H. Smith, as is mentioned on uspatterns.com, then it has nothing to do with the 1885 J-1747-50, which was clearly a test of a technology. I don't know which die pair was used for the 1885 patterns, but it should be...

As part of the migration of the wiki (everything on VAMworld but the messages), I will announce a last chance to edit pages here. This will probably be early August, but a specific date will be announced at least 1 week ahead of time. After the cutoff date, I will set the wiki to read-only and take ...

This isn't a well produced video, or anything, but it helped someone get photos posted

I have a small bottle of VAM hair oil. Jeff Oxman had a small case of these and was giving them away at a show several years ago.

Thanks John. Will you let us know when it is ok to upload photo's? I'll let people know when I open it up. I have it locked down right now so that only I can make edits. Meanwhile, there is a MediaWiki Sandbox that is open for the world to edit. If you want to try editing a page, play with this one...

the date on this one looks fishy to me. Can't really find something on the REV that stands out... :) https://www.ebay.com/itm/1878-CC-1-Morgan-Silver-Dollar-Rare-Date-NO-RESERVE-Very-Nice-Details/273287311527?epid=170382965&hash=item3fa13170a7:g:mWUAAOSwGNxbH42O Other than the reverse of 79 and lar...

Don't upload anything yet. I will probably test out my import scripts tonight to see if I'll be able to import all the current pages. This will probably include purging all pages from the wiki at least once until I'm satisfied that I can import the whole thing including images.

First things first. I need to actually get the wiki up and running beyond the default "congratulations, you installed and did initial configuration on your wiki" page.