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<p>[QUOTE="Omegaraptor, post: 8355291, member: 76105"]So I walked into my college town LCS today showing one of my recent coin purchases, and didn’t come expecting to buy anything. However I looked in his Morgan Dollar tray for a bit. Noticed that a 1921-S dollar in there had a big die gouge between the leaf and Phrygian cap. Woohoo! I asked how much he wanted, and he said $36, which I paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I am trying to attribute which die state this VAM could be. 1b-6 looks closest, but there is something peculiar about this one. There is a die crack running from the rim at 6:30 through the 1 and 9 of the date before stopping at the 2. As much as I’m trying to call it just a random scratch… I’m kind of feeling it’s a die crack. No other piece I have found has this line.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482879[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1482880[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1482881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1482882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1482884[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=73983]@jtlee321[/USER] [USER=19250]@Paddy54[/USER] what do you think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Omegaraptor, post: 8355291, member: 76105"]So I walked into my college town LCS today showing one of my recent coin purchases, and didn’t come expecting to buy anything. However I looked in his Morgan Dollar tray for a bit. Noticed that a 1921-S dollar in there had a big die gouge between the leaf and Phrygian cap. Woohoo! I asked how much he wanted, and he said $36, which I paid. Now I am trying to attribute which die state this VAM could be. 1b-6 looks closest, but there is something peculiar about this one. There is a die crack running from the rim at 6:30 through the 1 and 9 of the date before stopping at the 2. As much as I’m trying to call it just a random scratch… I’m kind of feeling it’s a die crack. No other piece I have found has this line. [ATTACH=full]1482879[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1482880[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1482881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1482882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1482884[/ATTACH] [USER=73983]@jtlee321[/USER] [USER=19250]@Paddy54[/USER] what do you think?[/QUOTE]
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