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Can anyone put names on the faces please :D 20230106_194607a.jpg From left, Andy Hansen, don't know, Michael Dustin, Colin something, don't know, Dave Miller, Lan (Dave's GF), John Coxe, Alan Scott, John Roberts, Russ James, Fogie. Included on the other side of the table are Dennis Dunn, Ash Harris...

And speaking of an infusion of youth into the hobby, this picture was from the Harry Bass sale.

They preferred fiat.

Every FUN show features dinner at Delmonico's, a noisy Italian steak house. I think tonight was the biggest crowd we've had yet. About 25 people, some younger VAM-interested collectors, some collectors I'm meeting for the first time at FUN, and a few plus ones. This is what walking down one side of ...

Half way between IB in PLURIBUS is 12:00 on the obverse. The knot on the wreath is 6:00 on the reverse.

Ask yourself if the corresponding clash on the reverse lines up with what you think you see on the obverse.

I'll reinforce "learn the basics." Date position, date repunching, mint mark position, mint mark repunching, obverse and reverse hub types, where to look for actual doubling, how to not get fooled by machine doubling, notable vs. ignorable die clashes, cracks, and breaks. Some dates let you divide a...

All the lines I'm seeing are rather deep planchet striations that were not struck out. They are not damage to the coin.

Thank you John and RWB. ...Yes, compared to a coin without a lamination error. I am thinking a lot of a lamination error is hidden; kind of like an iceberg. Often this is the case, but it's hard to tell. I find the prospect of conducting these sorts of experiments interesting, but I'm not up for do...

Start with a close-up of the engraved feather under the eagle's right wing.

If this is a UK auction house, I'm going to guess that nobody there had the slightest interest in the die variety and that the "clerking error" was legitimate and had something to do with book bids being screwed up. Without the error, you might not have won the coin, anyway. A phone call might be en...

... A flap of silver must make a different noise, right? From a coin without a lamination? Yes, but you have to be able to repeatably acquire a ping from the two coins enough times that you know the difference between them is outside the margin of error. If you can get the same spectrogram 10 times...

Heavy scrape on the G and into the field below it, nothing more.

Yes. Quite.

So i Have a funny (sort of ) the second calendar hit the house tonight ,,,,,,, Complete with a computer signature letter from Stephanie that is more about advertising than anything else . I guess I should be grateful because now i can hang something in my office that my beloved clowns can write the...

LateDateMorganGuy wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:17 pm

This is interesting, but not sure I see a commercial application for it.

The story of so much of what we do.

I'll be at table 806 doing photos Thursday afternoon through Saturday. VAM Thing Friday, dinner at least Thursday night. Private study session with the 21-S Zerbe and maybe 21 Chapman probably Saturday morning. Looking forward to it.

I was hoping to find someone, that has an 1894 S vam 2 Morgan. On the 1894 S vam 2 page, it only has a small picture of the S mint mark. I was hoping to see larger area or more of the reverse. I tried clicking and sending George Mallis, who discovered it, back in June 1965, but I could not send him...

Thanks again all for your help. I'm happy to create a VNA section for the webpage and upload pictures to help others in the search for Plain Jane if that would be OK. Right now it's lacking that section. I've added a comment to the VAM 2 page that links back to this thread. If someone searched 1902...

Do coins of different designs have different spectrograms? Are they different enough between designs and similar enough within designs that you could tell the design by the spectrogram, much like Merlin does with birds?