VAMWorld 2.0

It’s always been slow, but it’s getting real slow; used to take a week or so; now one package mailed 8/20 MAY reach its destination tomorrow. It looks like 10-14 days is the new norm. Better safe than sorry; I like the service for mailing higher $$ stuff or things I could not replace.

Look at radial die crack to right of the date at the 1st star; A1C reverse shared with many obverses; coin is PL too, for starters…

I ask because to me it seems sometimes the truly rare stuff sells for more if it's unattributed. Hard to pick a better 78 variety of any sort, let alone one of the key 8 TF marriages off an auction site without anyone else spotting it. That’s pretty much true nowadays, but , sometimes things still ...

186

Mine will be in the next shipment to VSS.

85, 80, 80B, 80A, 86, 22A, 22B based on life of OBV die

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…also, to me the plain V131 (proof only) and unrelated V131 die 1 never made sense with others denoted as A, B, C. Yes, 130 is a debacle, and I maintain the middle 130C2 does not exist; discovery is really a C3…

Earliest rev die is 20; EDS are 2-sided PL; LDS is 2-sided clashed; then came the EDS 16; my example is strong semi-PL; there are a couple of shorter gouges above the big one; not sure if die wear or polishing shortened the gouges (the standard one); LDS is 2–sided clashed; then cleaned up and used ...

Fortunately, I have one! Fortunately, no new hole as I’ve got a 2-sided clashed LDS ( no letter transfer). Thanks goes out to Lew for getting the EDS recognized.