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VAM 2A . The coin is worn enough that the doubling is difficult to see. Thank you! If there is no objection, I would like to add two photos to the 1924-P Vam-2A page. http://www.vamworld.com/forum/download/file.php?id=30911 and: http://www.vamworld.com/forum/download/file.php?id=30991 My thinking o...

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You guys make this the best Vam site!

I have what I attributed as a 1921-D Vam 12A. I will send in or photograph... Interesting Vam.

For 1921 Peace dollars, the mint was experimenting with which die should be the hammer die. The 1921 VAM 1F2 has a collar clash on the reverse, whereas the VAM 1K2 and VAM 1AC have the collar clash on the obverse. On all later dates, collar clashes occur on the reverse. Thank you for all your contr...

Thanks once again, John.
I think the only way I am going to understand the minting process is to try and operate one of those vintage presses; in person...then you will see some errors.

Thanks @RogerRock
I found info on another coin that I guess you could call an 'anvil die rim clash'. It is a 1921 Peace Vam-1K2. I think they have a different 'look' than the more common hammer die rim clash. Here is a picture:

I am learning also a clash on the obverse of a Peace Dollar is a rare thing.
I have only found information on one so far in my search for some kind of comparison.
It is on a 1921 Peace Vam-1AC: I will get more photos once I have the coin in hand... Thanks for the input.

Thanks everyone!

This coin was in a small group of D-mint coins I recently got, and I am profoundly clueless. Any VAM help would be greatly appreciated -- There are finger feed areas at TA and OF. finger feeds.jpg Dennis. I see the 'feed areas at TA and Of.' Is there evidence of a gouge I am probably missing? Thanks.

Finally identified this coin as a VAM 1Q2 but the radial reverse break extend through Eagle's neck as a displaced field break. Don't know if this qualifies as a new 1Q3 vam or a late die stage 1Q2. If someone has interest in posting these images on the 1Q2 page, I give my permission . I have added ...

I can't find anything in the scribbles or die crack break guides for this coin, even though it has very clear examples of both. Can anyone help? First is yet another long, bold crack from the denticles above F in OF that goes through the F and left wing and into the top of the right wreath (where i...

A little acetone bath in that area, Will also help I am afraid the acetone may wash my dreams away... I think those gouges are barely on there. I will work on the date first. ;) Thanks, you guys. I am allergic to C3H6O, anyway. (I had to look at the can for formula.) Here is date: GCS6500_5.JPG Fog...

Hello everyone. JB sparked my interest in the 1879-S with all the work he just did on them. Please take a look at these LFCPs of my 79-S: GCS6472.JPG GCS6459.JPG My main interest is in the Rev. at the left star. By tweaking the 'Light' just right I came up with these two close-up photographs of my a...

Great Fun for me when I get an opportunity to attempt photographs! Thank you for your interest. There is a die gouge left of the 'G' in God on the coin in question. Here is a photo: gcs_gouge_G.jpg I found nothing at the'V' that looks like even a remnant of a gouge, no matter how I twist the light :...

jrfaust Thanks for your encouragement and your memory of the missing neck feathers on that 1926-s Vam 2F3 for a nice comparison. Here are some quick, unedited snapshots of the area of the coin we are looking at. I am hoping that makes a difference somehow. (my first photos in this thread are full o...

I agree!

I need a copy. great find!

Thanks for your input Albannach . I went through the list again for good measure but did not locate anything. The thread-like die impression is similar to others on a 1925-p but in different locations. The missing feathers on the eagle's neck are not to be found, but It reminds me of VAM 1T a polish...

Hello, everyone. I took photographs for a friend. They were of coins he found at the bottom of his Grandfathers sock drawer. :) I didn't get a chance to really look at the photos I took closely; until just now. Please take a look at the rev. on his 1925-p. I attempted to outline my interests. LD_Shd...

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Sun Mar 20, 2022 5:43 pm

I'm going to have to block out some time to read that. Nothing like the grandiloquence of a 19th century newspaper article.

I had to look up six words/phrases I didn't know in the article...now one more.

Does this learning ever end?

Thanks. Great article!

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 s...