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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nesvt, post: 24850, member: 1749&quot;]I bought Rob Joyce&#039;s book on 1921-D Morgans.&nbsp; It has some great info and pictures.&nbsp; From what I understand, Van Allen and Mallis (VAM) only assign numbers to unique varieties with significant characteristics.&nbsp; The dies breaks and other minor differences identifed by Joyce and Hart were too minimal for new VAM numbers.&nbsp; However, they wanted to track these varieties for cataloging and research.&nbsp; They used their initials and came up with the JOH numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The VAM book specifically mentions that some of the 1892-CC VAM-1 variety have the base of the 2 filled in... like your coin.&nbsp; It does look more like an extra piece of metal was added, but I&#039;ve seen similar photos with filled 2&#039;s.&nbsp; Not sure why someone would fake a VAM-1 with a filled 2.&nbsp; It&#039;s the least desirable VAM for that year and mint.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s real.&nbsp; They still find new VAMs.&nbsp; I just sent one to Van Allen last week for a new VAM assignment.</p><p><br /></p><p>I put a note in the Error forum last night.&nbsp; I have a quarter with extra metal connecting the 1 in the date to Washington&#039;s neck.&nbsp; No replies yet, but I wonder if this is a similar error (or altered coin).&nbsp; Where did the extra metal come from?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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