VAMWorld 2.0

Yes, those were the days.

From a dealer perspective -- Registration and Set up: All worked fine with no issues for us except that there should have been power at each table. The only hassle was running the [provided] extension cords along the demarcation piping and entering another dealer's booth to plug it in. Public Addres...

Wow. I thought of you, Dom, at the recent ANA show. Wondered where you had been. Ash has primarily been working on the Morgan valuations. The Peace ones are also there but do require someone authoritative enough to have the SSDC imprimatur on them. This is something important for the Board to discus...

I found it fine for what I required this time. However, as I mentioned on the CU discussion board, the ANA (and other large show organizers) need to deal better with the anchoring auctions. 1) The lot viewing was apparently off-site, blocks away. That is never acceptable. It needs to be on-premise. ...

Forgot to give you the Matte Proof Lincoln book, JB, that I brought to the show. Will bring it to FUN. It's just a small booklet. Was great to reconnect with VAM friends and enjoy some good VAM discussion and viewing (without getting sucked back in). Showed off (and sold even) some cool Trade dollar...

1881-S VAM-72A added, though it needs supporting images on the VW page here. The others in the Registry MB post need supporting VW pages before adding (and moving the 1C).

Registry changes (fogie is unavailable right now): 7A moved to 122 45A moved to 124 119 eliminated, all three registered moved to 6 - no break seen on imaged one and the Heritage auction one; the Logan one is in the wild and presumed 6, not 6A, unless shown otherwise. Andy and Brent will have to fin...

I have had a number of pretty rare coins (some were discovery pieces) in AU PL/DMPL grades from NGC mostly but also ANACS. PCGS did lapse and did a few AU prooflike Morgans in the past, but their policy does not allow it now. An AU55|8 (DM)PL can sometimes looks more prooflike than one in MS60-62. A...

There is an issue too with the absorption capacity of the market. I don't know the numbers you put out there in auction, but the retail crowd will only buy so much over a short period of time. That especially applies to specialties like die varieties. And if you have more than one example of even a ...

Corner booth 1749 (Select Rarities). Stop by and look at some fun stuff.

I see 3 certs in the log that were changed from VAM-96 (index=345) to VAM-43.1 (index=291). Can just identify those certs under a VAM-43.1 look-up and move them back if they are still there. Owners will still need to re-add them into the appropriate sets. +----------------+--------+-----------+-----...

Would be a fun candidate to examine with x-ray diffractometry to see if some details remain subsurface in the lattice deformation. Otherwise, nic that date.

I believe I might have sent that to Leroy years ago. Forget what I said. Will have to see if I got something on it.

Nice find!

The typical format once a reference is well known is to just use the initial then the number. In a couple of years these will likely be C numbers, but for now spelling it out answers the inevitable question about the cited reference. I find I still spell out Fortin for Seated Dimes or Briggs for Se...

Nomenclature question: Do you prefer COXE-n, Coxe-n, or C-n for citing your catalog? I have to admit that my name for it was at least initially alarming. The goal was to simply catalogue the varieties for the remaining US silver dollar series that remained undone. I was using the C-n format to refe...

Posted from ANACS 5302060 1873 TR$ COXE-2.1 15 significantly lower grade than my estimate, proof obverse die and I believe the reverse die was as well based on a diagnostic pointed out in the Challenge 50 pdf. The proof reverse was reused for proofs for subsequent years and unlikely to have been use...

Got all of mine in earlier today as well as for the Silver Eagles.

I had heard that NGC was also slow lately. But I have no firsthand knowledge of that, as I have not submitted to them in probably 20 years or more. JR is probably still hammered. I did an ICG submission (my first) this year and was surprised how fast they were. They do Potty Dollars. So I gave them ...