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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 1672548, member: 41863&quot;]Hey guys,</p><p><br /></p><p>So ive become interested in identifying my coins further (Morgan and Peace $$&#039;s) and so i tried to do a cross analysis of my coin with the VAMWorld site and ended up having a question on the matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the coin in question is a 1922-D Peace Dollar, nothing special just some nice golden rim toning and a simple addition to a set that I am currently working on. Well I typically try and see if I can come up with any VAM varieties whenever I get a new dollar, and I think I may have attributed my first one, but i need some help with a couple questions first.</p><p><br /></p><p>How accurate and consistent does the coin have to be with the describe attribute and picture to be labeled as that particular VAM? </p><p><br /></p><p>This is really my one and only major question with this particular coin. I think ive nailed it down, but my coin is ever so <i>slightly </i>different than the pictures and description. Anyway so im going to walk you through my thought process:</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 1: </p><p><br /></p><p>I finally ended up at the page listing all of the VAMs for this date and mintmark</p><p><a href="http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAMs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAMs" rel="nofollow">http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAMs</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Step 2:</p><p><br /></p><p>It took me a second to realize that this page is broken down into 2 different reverses, so I identified mine as reverse B1 using the features they listed for identification. So that made it easy to go through only half the page</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 3:</p><p><br /></p><p>I systematically went through the different VAMs, paying particularly close attention to where I felt my coin would have the more prominent identifiers. I finally settled on one that is VERY close to my coin. It was VAM-1AF. So I moved to step 4.</p><p><br /></p><p>Step 4:</p><p><br /></p><p>Comparison. </p><p><a href="http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAM-1AF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAM-1AF" rel="nofollow">http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAM-1AF</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now this is where my question arises and you all are going to have to forgive me, we wont be able to use a picture of my coin, but I will do my best to accurately describe the difference and what is going on with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Upon viewing my coin through my loupe, i noticed several nice die cracks going on, probably the most ive ever seen personally on a coin. The first crack I noticed starts at the right side of &#039;Y&#039; in LIBERTY near the rim and runs through the bottom of the &#039;Y&#039; all the way through the bun in her hair, stopping at the very front edge of the bun before continuing back into the field. This diagnostic matches up perfectly with what VAMWorld is showing in the picture as an identifier for 1AF. </p><p><br /></p><p>The next die crack I noticed is the main one used to identify this variety based off of VAMWorld. This one is located near the right side base of Lady Liberty&#039;s neck. It starts as a line slightly intersecting the base of the neck and flowing to the right, intersecting the &#039;T&#039; in TRUST just like in VAMWorlds picture, but this is where my difference occurs, instead of mine turning up rather sharply and bypassing the &#039;R&#039; and the &#039;V&#039; entirely, the die crack instead cuts through the top left side of the &#039;R&#039; and continues to intersect the &#039;V&#039; at the very top left arm, ending slightly lower under the hair than pictured by VAMWorld.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you were able to follow all of that, and without a picture from me no less, would you consider my coin that particular variety, or would it be something entirely new altogether? I would think it would be attributed as such, but I dont know enough about VAMs to accurately say that, and with the whole idea of VAMs, I could see this being a &#039;new&#039; variety simply because its different than whats listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any help?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and I will try for a picture, but dont hold me to it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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