VAMWorld 2.0

Squirrel, you did not specify which Mr. Wilson I look like. You must be too young to know that the original Mr. Wilson did not have a mustache. The first one had glasses, but the second one did not, only that tash. I have both. No wonder you can't VAM

Here is my two cents since I was there. By FAR, the largest VAM Dinner I have ever attended. The group was so large, and the room cramped, that it made socializing and introductions awkward. Too many names for me to remember anyway. A lot of younger faces which was encouraging however. But that bein...

I see the scratches. There is a saying, if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

For the 1902-Os, there are crack finder links at the top of the page. But that is just a quick fix for someone starting. best to learn the basics as others have said.

Looks like an asphalt parking lot scrape. Hard to tell from the photos.

Yup, you don't need an expert to see PMD plain as day. Sorry, but no cigar.

This is interesting, but not sure I see a commercial application for it.

When I read between the lines of what John is saying, forget about using the Registry for a few weeks. His words also seem to imply that anything you input may be lost once the server issue is resolved. But maybe I am wrong about that.

Plan to be there around Noon Friday and attend the JR talk and VAM Thing. Hope to see the regulars and maybe a few new faces.

Seems like just because they destroyed them, does not necessarily mean they were all used?

By the way, for someone so experienced, I am surprised you are playing this grading game and complaining.

Interns did it.

As to the question about being burnt, it is hard to tell from the photo. From my experience, coins that have gone thru a fire usually loose all their mint luster. I think I can see some in your photo. But it also depends on how hot the coin got in a fire. More likely it is some sort of environmental...

Not sure I see the need for something like this. But folks draw lines all the time and it seems to work for them, somehow, just not sure for what or why. I try to stay away from making VAMming too precise for an imprecise hobby. It's kinda like the suggestion put out there before about using only a ...

Date placement can enter the grey area. Take a look at this date placement. The same obverse die was listed as both "normal" and "near" by Leroy in two different listings. This is why I don't use line drawing to figure a date placement. The DPIS is about as good as it gets, but even it has grey areas.

Just my humble opinion. Just collect what you like and find cool. Ignore the R&I ratings. This makes it easy.

And just to get into the minutia of this issue. Part of the conclusion of whether this M/M is "high" or not depends on how thick you make the horizontal line you draw and where and how high you connect it to the bottoms of the bow ribbons. Just food for thought.

According to your line drawing interpretation, which is qualitative. But if you try and take that M/M placement into the VAM listings and try to find a match, you may come up dry. Not trying to be a curmudgeon. I remember a LVA submittal when I suggested a doubled profile existed on a coin. His resp...

I've never been a fan of line drawing. While it can help with a die study to discern differences in dies, it is generally unreliable to use this approach to try and match a M/M placement with the VAM listing placement.

Loaded questions. 1. I would call the M/M placement "centered & upright", aka C3a. Some might call it "slightly tilted right" or "slight tilt to right". Some folks like to try and "quantify" M/M placements, but since the actual VAM listings can call the placement different things but also similar pl...