VAMWorld 2.0

Your comments are on track, especially with regard to participation. Prices for VAMs have to be directly related to demand and our best course of action is to grow the hobby.

It seems to me that the required redo and move of VW gave us a great opportunity to clean up everything and especially the member list. I know from reading these posts over the years that there were people with more than one ID and I am sure with the average age of our group more than one collector ...

I think I am ready to agree with Mitch. All the V57 coins I have (3) have the area behind the ear where the metal does no seem to flow right into the die and you wind up with this poorly defined hair as it goes toward the ear. This coin has that feature and I think Mitch is right on target.

I am still getting use to the new forum and these images still seem to be limited in size to view. How about a closeup of the ear and area below where the hair meets the outside of the ear.

Not to beat a dead horse, but there are a lot of features here that fit with V57, but I would like to see a larger full shot of the obverse. Something doesn't look quite right when I compare it to the discovery coin. Can we get a large full coin on the obverse?

I neglected to post that the July and August updates for the 1881-O web site are there, but there hasn't been a lot happening. I think I was in a funk waiting on this site to come through the transition, and I have a lot of cleanup work to do that will go on through September. http://www.1881o.com/2...

JB-Congrats for all the hard work and getting the transition done. I now feel like I can go back to VAMing!

I had a chance to look at it and well done. I appreciate the short plug on the opening also.

I was not aware when I started all this of the difficulty we put on LVA with the single coin submission and I have the greatest admiration for what he accomplishes based on his experience and knowledge. I limited my focus to just one date/mint so I could focus and learn, but I think that approach ha...

I think it is a permanent learning curve. VAMing is open ended and thinking you understand everything is a mind numbing experience. Obviously I am focused very narrowly and I still struggle with many things.

I am also gun shy about data loss and for that reason I find Excel very easy. I tried the PCGS site and it works fine and has the advantage of updating prices. But in the case of VAMs they do not track prices and if I have to do them manually I want to stick with Excel. Then there is the exposure of...

Well I missed this announcement https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins ... -sale.html

I am using Edge with no issues and it remembers ID and password info

Over the years purchased and tried every available program for my PC. After all those tries I finally decided to try my own using MS Access. This worked but was a pain to maintain. So I have come around to using Excel and I think it is the best answer since it is easily customizable to your needs. I...

http://www.1881o.com/2018-06.html Well I am back in the saddle so to speak and starting to catch up. I just posted the update above and think this is a good one. I finished up (or took it as far as my knowledge can go) the look at the VAM sequence for the 20, 1J, 1H, 40 can go. But along the way I f...

Nice coins, but are you holding back any 81-O's