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Classic cars? In 1956? They called them carriages, Tom!!

Well... they both have... uhhh... ummm... a one?

I don't see a single MS70 in the batch... what, are you shopping for lowballs for that rabbit now?

Nah, not this time.

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Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:19 pm

BTW I didn't"t see any gray hair on that crazy squirrel!

Sorry Dom, here's a self-portrait BEFORE photoshop:

Have you tried poking it with a stick?

Insane? Squirrel? My good sir, I can most assuredly assure you there are NO insane squirrels here. Nice to hear from ya Dom!

Half-bean under the branch, a polished ear and no clashing? Yup, 33.
Know this and everything else is just noise.

Glad it stayed in the fam Mitch!

Nestv... that was Norm, was it not? (sigh) Another forty on the curb for those we've lost.

Great pick! You pulled the trigger while I was mulling it over...

It's the one shown in this post: http://www.vamworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1073&hilit=wow I'm not particularly sure which sub-variety it would actually fall under any more, but it IS a WOW! VAM. I found an MS63 with a stronger (less polished) "I" clash, which is the only reason I may be will...

Ok, so I think you may be confused about "PL". An AU coin is supposed to have some luster left, so, by default, you SHOULD still be able to see mirrored fields (in the less contacted areas) on an AU coin. "PL" has everything to do with mirrors and nothing to do with wear...

Just a note, some of the folks you've been conversing with have been doing THIS professionally for decades as well... and they're building on knowledge that others have accumulated for decades before them. In your profession do you ever use Occam's Razor? If so, ask yourself this question: Would it ...

I must be losing my ever-loving mind, but I can't even convince myself this is a VAM-9... am I really that out of practice??

Short answer? No. This isn't a particularly late stage v38b... those dies really went through a lot.

Maybe it's time to forget about what you think you see and look thru the listings for marriages with the mintmark tilted strongly to the left. There's only a couple of options. Imagination can help you once you understand the basics within this field, but honestly right now you are doing yourself a...

Sorry to hear Hawk, I'm currently in the midst of the same. Our Shiba Inu is 15 and recently developed a severe limp that has me nervous.
On a side note, ten years old and already had his own cell phone???

Scott, I wish I could tell you to GFYS, but, since I haven’t BEEN a board member for SEVERAL YEARS, I have no cause to… though it is nice to see that you are as capable of IDing an SSDC board member as you are at IDing a VAM-23a.