Below, please find images of the Neck-Jaw clash, along with a second view of the lower hair VEE. Just quickly, with the coin in hand, I do not see evidence of I,N,G or R,U,S,T letter transfer on the obverse. Letter transfer from clashing on the reverse is also absent.
At this point, my gut feeling is that the subject coin may be a VAM 15, but, with the caveat mentioned above in response to MarkyB, that the left 8 appears to be doubled at the field rather than at the surface, as shown in the date images with die cracks on the VAM 15 webpage.
The problem for me is the paucity of images shown of the date with die cracks variety both obverse & reverse on the VAM 15 webpage.
If the member who submitted those images could supply additional images from his coin showing the extension of the the date die cracks through the bust to stars 1 and 2 on the left, I would be more apt to accept the attribution of VAM 15.
Additional acceptance in this regard would be an image of the horizontal die crack through the lower hair.
If additional images of die markers were submitted that matched those of the subject coin as shown in the images above, I might tend to relent and look the other way about the left 8 problem. Trust these opinions and images are of some help.
- Obverse clash with extended neck
- DOLLAR1882LOT662C036OBV10A.jpg (63.8 KiB) Viewed 272 times
- Magnified view of the 2nd hair VEE with associated die crack.
- DOLLAR1882LOT662C036OBV14.jpg (27.91 KiB) Viewed 272 times
- Lower hair and designer initial. Note the over polishing and the resulting missing hair above the 1st & 2nd hair VEES and below the designer initial.
- DOLLAR1882LOT662C036OBV15.jpg (77.54 KiB) Viewed 272 times
