VAMWorld 2.0

Tamper resistance is easily worked around by buying NGC shells from China, unfortunately.

Sure enough. Nuking VAM 131. It never existed.

I'm revising VAM 1BN to include more of the die markers I saw.

i Like the DPIS , although it is not really something my brain carries around with it quite yet , it is better and more scientific in my own feeble mind than the subjectivity involved in MM placement . Thanks from one of the new guys ! edit typo :) Hey Bob. Lets try one [1]! You first. (I have bett...

It's later than the one without the crack. Just how late, it's hard to say. "Very late" is typically reserved for a die that is long overdue for retirement, so I would say that it's a late die stage.

I don't think I'd add a listing for the development of die cracks as shown. There would have to be a new, larger break somewhere to qualify. If you find one without the "bean" breaks inside the S, then that would also qualify. Dennis recently sent me and early and late version of VAM 5C that resulte...

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Yes, that's not a good picture for a very far date. I would just call that a far, low date. I know there are some VAMs that have been listed for questionable date positions, and perhaps this was one of them.

Far date, but not very far. The left edge of the 1 has to be clearly past the left edge of the 4th denticle.

Take a look at this section of the Attribution 101 page that discusses date position.

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Fri Feb 24, 2023 3:33 am

Congratulations. That is a lot of hard work.

No kidding. Took quite a while to finish going through them.

I've edited the page to make the instructions relevant to the new VAMWorld discussion board. If anyone is interested in making it into a detailed tutorial page, let me know.

I'm surprised you found the old "Posting Pics 102" page and that anything still links to that.

I just got back in town tonight after being gone for the week. I think most of those pages are actually up, but they need my photos. Time to catch up.

Looks like AG3 to me. The 89-O page talks about VAMs with rotated dies right at the top. Don't even have to search the wiki.

I'm out of town at the moment, but will officially kill it as a duplicate of VAM 22B when I get back. Meanwhile, consider it on Death Row without any allocation of green bananas.

Good news, fellas, when more thoroughly appraised of the situation, the seller refunded me and says they don’t want the coin back.... Combined with the seller not being very forthcoming about its origins, I'd watch their sales for a while. They don't need many people to keep a fake coin and be happ...

I would send it to JR at ANACS. I will have a use for it if The Morgan dollar summer seminar class is held, in which case I'll arrange to borrow it.

A dip sure couldn't have hurt it, and it does look more presentable after. Nice snag!

Almost looks too good to be true.

Yes, VAM 9E. The smashed die you see is far more interesting than the clashed die on this one.

VAM 12 was an option, but the tilt to the right isn't particularly strong. This could be called high, or somewhat high. Leroy's listing for the VAM 7 calls that reverse normal and it is very similar to this one. Both you and I have raised this point before - like other positional features, mintmark...