My thoughts last night was to figure out what is the motivating factor to all these coins I have... Is it to find the mystery error coin? Is it The thrill to find the best date and mint mark? Is the doomsday hording prep for barter and trade? Is it to buy low and sell high? To be honest- I didn’t come up with an answer yet. However, I did realize that I went from A to Z and forgot about the middle letters. Plan and simple, I didn’t respect my coins because I didn’t take the time to get to know them. So to the members of this forum. I would like to request a re-start. I plan on starting with my morgans. My goal will be to put a Vam number to them and ask that you concur or correct me. If you can take the time to throw out a grade, that would be amazing. Sorry for the long post- just had to get that off my chest. Thank you to all the read this
Forget about the VAM assignments for now. It would be too time-consuming posting images of "one coin at a time". You'll also have to consider that many of your Morgans might only be VAM-1 which is a normal strike for that date/mm. To be honest, I don't like the envelopes that you are using for each coin. (Are they archivally safe?) You can't see the coins, and I'm not so sure that the ink from the Sharpie won't be harmful. (Have you ever heard of osmosis?) Why don't you use Saflips because each one has two pockets so you can put the coin in one pocket and a paper insert with information in the other pocket. The Saflip is made of clear, PVC-free plastic so you can see the coin. Chris
I concur with Chris. VAM numbers are in the millions .. yes, I'm jesting but I'm not far off. LOL you have a lot more to learn first to be able to identify VAMs. You have to learn about why the VAMs exist, how to learn grading becz it will help you learn to be more detailed and less bias in looking at a coin. for instance take a look at this long list for 1921 S VAMs which is around 195 of them. http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1921-S_VAMs
Agree on the envelopes. Along with the book, I bought 2 -100 coin capsules w/ storage box. In your opinion. What should I focus on first?
Don't get me started on "Scribbles" for the 1921! It's why I stopped collecting VAM's, and I'm a Life Member of the SSDC. Chris
in reference to this ... (1) Everyone seems to be looking for the million dollar coin. They saw it on YouTube or some clickbait website where there's millions to be found in Pocket Change. If it was that apparent, then half the nation would be retired just from checking their pocket change. The other half uses plastic. (2) This becomes very difficult in circulated coinage. People end up buying slabbed high grades of what they are looking for and can afford. Of course, anything pre1965 would be rare to find in pocket change. (3) yes, we've heard those arguments before. I'm a "realistic survivalist" though ... the PMs, coins, etc etc etc ... all have various arguments for/against. But most ppl lack the obvious. (4) you would think everyone would do it. It's mostly ppl taking advantage of the uninformed out there though.
I'm going to assume that many of your Morgans are in circulated condition. So, you'd be saving yourself a lot of time taking photos, composing the appropriate text and posting everything here for help grading them by simply buying a book on grading and learning for yourself. You've got to start somewhere! Chris
The book, Comprehensive Catalog and Encyclopedia of Morgan & Peace Dollars by Leroy Van Allen and A. George Mallis contains even more information than the VAMWorld site. Chris
