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Now that is a classic edition to anyone’s collection.

Tough call. I don’t see any evidence of grease but I do not remember a broken O hub either.

Such a nice, clear example. And great pictures make a great coin better. I hope one day to have my office back with a better photo setup- someday.

What a group! Did you have Ngc attribute them or did you do your own? As for the dark side, I have a gsa, soft pack of course, 1922v4, I don’t see too many vams of note in gsa softpacks. They are usually picked over pretty well.

Weak to no reeding is a big indicator of a low pressure/die trial, die setup piece.

Neither is going anywhere for me.

When you say new “wiki”, do you really mean wiki as in Wikipedia wiki? And will it be different than what we have here?

I really should go back and delete all those messages. They just take up space.

Do you pictures for us to see what you are talking about?

I am still shocked the previous owner did not send this to Leroy. It has been quite some time.

I did not say it was a proof! I only saw the denticles and how sharp and deep they were and it made me think of a proof. it is OBVIOUSLY NOT a proof. neither the obverse or reverse is from the proof dies. I think I would know proof dies well enough. I have handled quite a few of them.

I wonder if that totally ends the punkin chunkin.

oh poop. I just read a post on facebook about Bolton wanted no competition in whitehouse cybersecurity and he went back to the NSA.

the denticles made me think proof! I found a 1866 5c 1866/1866 sold as a f-vf. au all day long. weakly struck in center of the shield. yours is weak thoughout the portrait and I am not sure why. reverse is gorgeous. the obverse looks heavily worn--but not.

Some have figured me out. the name is a hybrid of a hamster I had 37 years ago(Hamsterdam). still addicted to VAMs and especially 1879s. and 8tf, and 1921s thornheads, and clashes, and doubled dies, and mislplaced dates, repunched dates, overdates......

why do I have to loging every time I reply to this even If I didn't log out????? also, 1879s VAM 1J has an ovaloid clash in front of the bridge of the nose, between the second and third set of leaves, in the field. it is closest to the innermost leaf of the second group from the top. Can someone pos...

1878 vam 163A ll/l 26*B2c (194) I-4 R-6 Obverse ll/l 26--Radial die crack from rim below 7 up to right side of 7 with displaced field break. my comments-crack goes all the way to hair. Also shows part of an N clash, although Leroy disagrees. Shape, size, location are spot on. 1879s Vam 105 lll 2*55*...

1879s v104 obverse lll2 35• C3ao (doubled 187, acid treated leaves). (184) I-3 r-5 Obverse lll 2•35- dame die as VAMs 66 & 86 but earliest die state Reverse C3a- slightly acid treated two leaves at ON, one at U, two at N and one atl of left wreath and ONE & UNITED. Die marker-fine polishing lines at...

Try some ammonia on a qtip over some of the black areas. Spin the qtip parallel to the coin surface and see if it pulls it off. And don’t forget to rinse it when you are done. And yeah, great cherrypick.

Vam 1j clashes n, ust, m