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Its a little hard to see but a faint outline of the long nock is still visible

The 78-CC used 14 obverse dies and 16 reverse dies to form 21 distinct marriages. The Type II obverse and Type B reverse hubbed dies did not last as long as their later counterparts on average. We see the shortened die life across all three mints compared to the Type 3 and C combinations. Three of t...

Yup, that's a VAM 20. It's relatively common particularly in GSA holders. Kinda rare in a 78-S holder

Brian's been on the new site as vamsterdamn

13 it is

Yeah, the relief on the portrait of the future King Edward VII is so high that it was hard to get a shot of the reverse. Not only wouldn't it lay flat, it would rock at the slightest touch - like pushing the button to snap the picture. JB you were showing off your Medal of Morgan in Baltimore a few ...

Nice!

Still kinda rare as a mint state coin, but yeah more have come to light over last few years. I guess the verbiage should be something like 'somewhat rare' in MS

I picked this up at the ANA in Philly. It's a British medal engraved by George Morgan shortly before he emigrated to the United States. I had fun showing it around the show and am still pretty jazzed about my purchase

I'm in for either night

If only we could borrow about five minutes of our founder's time....

Kills are so much harder than getting new listings. It really deserves its own symbol

Yeah, my comment was more about some of the wild speculation being floated over in another forum.

We've run off into the weeds here. There are no branch mint shenanigans from the Philly mint as being tossed around here and elsewhere. Collectors at the time did not care. Collecting by mint didn't really gain any following until the Heaton work in the 1890's. Why go thru all this trouble for somet...

Wow, that's a pretty wild clash on that VAM 38D

Prior to the announcement, Coin World contacted me about this piece. Their article including my comments is linked here

https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins ... piece.html

What JB said...

Pretty sure the fake leather plastic cover job you have is a first edition. I have a copy of the larger format hardbound 'Top 100' and it states it is a second edition limited to 100 copies. There are pictures of Fey and Oxman signing stacks of 1st editions the day before they were released and they...

I just needed the grades for the SSDC Registry, the attributions are mine. It's all about running up the score on just one set against fogie....

Yeah, I agree with Brian, the reeding is the best indicator. But having full denticles is an additional piece of evidence. Think this is the result of a bunch of grease and crud on dies from a normally weakly struck date