VAMWorld 2.0

I'll say right up front that it's very unlikely anyone will be able to identify this one. (A fellow board member who got an advance head's up said, "You're just being mean.") The point of this thread is to illustrate that interesting things – as in "significant enough for a VAM number" things – can ...

Acetone soak and toothpick would be my first strategy.

JOH-22 was assigned a VAM number today: 1FQ

Here are the sales I have since 2020:

1878 7/8TF 36 63 NGC Jul-21 H $480
1878 7/8TF 36 63 ICG Jan-21 E $282
1878 7/8TF 36 63 PCGS Sep-20 H $276
1878 7/8TF 36 63 ANACS Aug-21 GC $271
1878 7/8TF 36 63 NGC Oct-20 E $267

A lot of VAMs sold last night, including several bargains IMO. I got the 1878 7TF VAM 166 PCGS VF35 CAC – a variety I feel is perpetually underappreciated for how tough it is. It made John Roberts' "A Dozen VAMs for 2023" list and while his comment about it was "no longer impossible to acquire", go...

Fantastic buy!

The premiums for these holders, sometimes referred to as "engraved" holders, tend to be gigantic lately... like 10X (or more) the normal price.

Is there a premium value for VAM 10? There has been in the past (50-100%), although I can't even begin to understand why and I'm highly skeptical about it being repeatable. Your old "no-line fatty with gold lettering" holder, however, is scarce, popular, and very likely to continue bringing a nice p...

Seriously, "It's an 8" is all I got.

No premium for the VAM, IMO -- as is the case for nearly all of the 469 different 1921-P VAMs.
But there is likely a modest premium for the rattler holder; those have increased in popularity the last few years.

And here's another thread on this topic from last year:

http://www.vamworld.com/forum/viewtopic ... ers#p57735

I'm still waiting for one of The Masters -- @vampicker and @messydesk -- to come by and take pity on me.

Sorry about the red thread:

PL standards have shifted around a LOT over the past 35 years at grading services. Some of the coveted old holders are the most leniently judged coins when it comes to that designation. There are coins in old DMPL holders that are barely PL. The more PL/DMPL coins you see in person, the more abunda...

@RogerRock I know this is an old thread, but by coincidence I recently acquired a PCGS-62 coin that exactly matches your descriptions. It's now off to @messydesk for an attribution sticker.

The feed finger-polished area inside the wing really caught my eye:

Mostly filled E. Neat!

Here's the new 1921-D VAM 5C1 (does not have a "bean bottom S"):

Here's the old 1921-D VAM 5C that has been renamed 5C2 (has a "bean bottom S"):

Be careful out there folks, in the last week I've found a fake 1921-P in a fake PCGS holder and a fake raw 1921-D on eBay:

Magnifico!
Sono geloso!!

Here's the difference between the new 1921-P VAM 3FD1:

And the old/renumbered 3FD2: