OK, here are the pictures. Left side is the VAM 3 EDS coin, right side the normal VAM 3. Click for larger views. First, the mint mark, but that...
I will get photographic proof tonight when I have time, since I have EDS and LDS VAM 3 coins available. Of the 20,000 or so pictures I have on my...
Not that I know of, but there doesn't have to be. Mint marks were applied in Philadelphia, so this could have simply been repurposing an S-mint...
I'll use gloves when putting ASEs into my Dansco, otherwise I really don't like handling coins that way. They feel much less secure than using my...
Of course. I was speaking from a theoretical standpoint. Also, it was awkward to say that a second coin with lines identical to those on the...
Not exactly. Two coins with an identical pattern of lines tend to indicate the lines are in the die and not the coin, but if the lines are...
There is only one S punch size observed on dollars was the same from 1881-1898. 1880 has some with a larger S, and in 1899 they started using a...
There is really only one person that "refutes" the O/S mint mark. He also misuses the word "refute" when what he really means is "dispute." I...
Only three 1881-S VAMs really have a premium -- VAM 1B, VAM 54A, and 54B (with the latter two being different die stages of the same die pair)....
Lots of good stuff in that video. As requested in the OP, I'll talk about what I observed: 1. If you noticed how the grader and finalizer...
VAMWorld isn't organized very well for 1878-S. The key to attributing these is usually a combination of the 'r' in 'trust' (whether or not it's...
Image analysis software will only be able to attribute varieties if the images for doing so are of sufficiently high quality. When this happens,...
Ironically, there may be VAMs that are duplicates of others that were listed for traits that appeared due to die wear. These duplicates would...
I've seen records of Morgan dollar die usage, in the form of mint logs, from a couple years that show an average of about 130,000 per die. In the...
Looks like counting machine damage. Pity.
No. Just a big, red X sign in the parking lot.
5.1 is 10% light. That's quite a bit. By comparison, a VG Morgan dollar has lost only 3% of its weight to wear.
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I'll stay within the given scale and say 10. They're attractive, big, silver, approachable, challenging, and interesting.
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