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Glad you completed the set. I couldn’t remember who needed the vam 4. It slipped my mind with all that i have been dealing with.

A very tough coin. I have only found ONE. Tough, tough coin!

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Wish i had known about the Schaumburg indian grill. I would have loved trying it. Lots of international food In Schaumburg

wish i could have afforded to keep my v20's. it would have been fun to see them in hand again.

well, see what i started? it all started with a reward to the first person who could find a new 1879s r 78 vam. i found the v34b, and then the v57, 58, 62, 65, 68, 74, 83, 86, 58 die 2, 104, 110. i picked a vam 89, but did not discover it, same for 16a, and 78. i still haven't found a reused v56 obv...

i had thought of going to denver but considering all that i have been through in the last few months, i think i will take it easy. i killed myself last year doing 68 shows because my wife kept saying that i had to do more shows, more shows, more shows(for the last 5-6 years)! then she left me 3/25. ...

reminds me of a personality test i took years ago. forgot the name of it. it said i should have been a doctor or teacher, which is spot on. i didn't look into this one yet.

i have seen multiple examples of this vam, slabbed unattributed this year, including another one at CSNS.

had a great show. picked 1891o v3a2 au58, 78s vam 78 die 4 ngc64, 78s vam 69 ngc64, 1890o v14a ngc62, 1878 v143 pcgs64, 1888 denticle clash reverse ms63 pl, and some great doubled dies and toners. I even sold coins! yeah, i was at my table for stretches of time. food was very good, and i got to see ...

Sunce the is no date and mintmark mentioned in this, what were we talking about 2 years ago?

So, RogerB , how would you explain the elongated ray , if not a deliberate alteration of a die? Much like the wisconson quarter extra leaf high and low? Just happened to be on wisconson quarters in the shape and position of leaves. Same gor the 1962 50c fs-901 d in bell? Very lightly punched d, poss...

I have a table but don’t know the number

i called those MCCS holders "tombstones."

i cannot accept random errant punches as an explanation for misplaced dates. there is an 1866 seated half with 2 digits (likely 6's in the base of the rock, 2 overlapped upper portions of 1's in the lower left shield, a 1 in the hand holding the pole, a 6 in the shield above liberty on the right sid...

i love the serious doubling of vam 30. but hey, i'm a doubled die guy at heart.

i have both vam 17 and vam14. v14 doesn't get the respect that it ought. ii can't prove it yet,but i think vam 14(and maybe v17) are both type 2/type 1. no doubling of rays. doubling appears at lower left of branch where they start. , leaves are widely doubled, but again, no doubling of rays. not su...

absolutely an MPD! had not seen that one before. Not sure if it is in the MPD book. my wife packed up all of my reference material and put it in storage. that's an awesome find!!

this is sad, and no reason for it to happen. there is a 1878 vam "117" NGC63pl, or ngc64pl for sale that is a vam 141. i keep seeing it at the shows. and they(ngc) have the audacity to tell me that my coins that i sent in for attribution are either "too minor, or not varieties at all." so far, no on...

what a spectacular brockage! yes, for not rewriting and destroying history. learn from it, and move on accordingly.