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John:
Thankfully, they put it in a regular holder.

Wow! 500 already!?
Way to go... and thank you for all of it!

Just received the coin back from PCGS.
Stunned that they graded it VF25.

Agreed. Top arc of the horn is still visible.

Not exactly sure how to proceed here, but more than enough time has passed so...

All guesses were much too high – which means @collectinsince65 came closest. My purchase + crossover cost was $294, which seemed too cheap to pass up at the time, and what my gut says now was a sweet 'pick.

PM sent.

I bought this on a lark 22 years ago when it was in an NGC-55 holder. It's old and it's gold, so it caught my attention on eBay. And being a VAM nerd, the overdate feature made me want it even more. It not only crossed in the holder on the first try, but it went up to AU58. I have no clue how rare i...

JohnGoldsmith wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 31, 2023 1:39 am

Current PCGS price guide list the coin at a wallet busting $225.00. Need the price I paid for the VF details.

I sometimes wonder if PCGS knows how to operate an On-Off switch.
Its price is low by a factor of about 20.

$1750

In 18+ years of gathering VAM sales data I have only seen 4 Mint State sales – two MS62s and two MS61s. No telling, of course, whether any of them were the same coin(s). 1878 7TF R78 189 62 PCGS Jun-23 H $3,840 1878 7TF R78 189 62 NGC Nov-22 E $3,827 1878 7TF R78 189 61 PCGS Oct-19 E $4,000 1878 7TF...

Looks like it will have to go in the next batch to VSS.

$38

Nineteen freaking digits, which in math-speak means quintillions.
Does anyone know why they are so bizarrely huge?

@alefzero Should know something about this topic!

Have you contacted or sent the PCGS attributers with this updated information? Heavens no. We're just collectors, so we don't know anything about anything. Worse yet, we're VAM collectors, which also makes us just clueless, whining idiots that should be tuned out and ignored. PCGS is the Supreme Au...

Theoretically possible. But our confident conclusion is there is no such thing as a 9A. Instead, PCGS parroted an existing (pre-scribbles era) attribution that had been given for an eye-catching characteristic (filled letter) rather than for coins produced by a unique identified die pair. Not long a...

While researching a lengthy article that John Goldsmith and I wrote on this topic in 2021, we tracked down most of the known PCGS examples of VAM 9A. Here is a brief excerpt: Because of how small and incredibly helpful the VAM community is, we set out to see how many VAM 9As we could track down. We ...

If you put a wide reeding 1921-P side by side with a regular reeding 1921-P, the difference will jump out at you.

And then there's this neck-wing gap scratch, which can sometimes be tricky to see:

VAM 13 is a wide reeding variety. Have you checked for those major pickup points?

MarkyB wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:07 pm

Try VAM 76 on for size.

Oh... I like that one.
Well done!

Interesting. I can't find a match either. The closest I came was 84, but I don't think that's it. 23 made me pause too.