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<p>[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 1212153, member: 24633"]My questions were intended to be "tongue-in-cheek", hence the comment about the emoticons which makes it apparent that some people can't grasp the gist of a comment without them. Had I chose to use them, would you have answered differently? What did people do 50 years ago when all they had was paper & pen?</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that you made it seem as though these are common everyday occurrences with your reference to the BIE's (How many of these were struck?) failed to address the fact that, unlike the BIE's, there were very, very few of these medals struck. As a matter of fact, another member posted a link to an identical medal that was engraved some three years later in 1967, and it doesn't have any die chips at all. Could it be that the original die failed earlier than expected and they had to make a new one? How many medals do you suppose were struck on that original die?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I brought up the VAM-9, specifically, unlike you who made just a generalized statement about all VAM's (?) because those dies failed after striking only 300+ Morgan dollars. (NOTE: Some accounts put the number at 303, but 341 have been attributed.) In case you didn't know, the VAM-9 was discovered in 1966, but the coin has been around 133 years unlikie the BIE's that were produced in the 40's & 50's. By the way, two Presentation Pieces of the VAM-9, an ANACS MS62 and an ANACS MS64, were sold by Heritage from the Leroy Van Allen Collection in 2008 for $11,494 and $19,500 respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can call me a fool and you can call my comments foolish, but the fact that you have chosen to comment negatively with only half-truths borders on ridiculous.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 1212153, member: 24633"]My questions were intended to be "tongue-in-cheek", hence the comment about the emoticons which makes it apparent that some people can't grasp the gist of a comment without them. Had I chose to use them, would you have answered differently? What did people do 50 years ago when all they had was paper & pen? The fact that you made it seem as though these are common everyday occurrences with your reference to the BIE's (How many of these were struck?) failed to address the fact that, unlike the BIE's, there were very, very few of these medals struck. As a matter of fact, another member posted a link to an identical medal that was engraved some three years later in 1967, and it doesn't have any die chips at all. Could it be that the original die failed earlier than expected and they had to make a new one? How many medals do you suppose were struck on that original die? Yes, I brought up the VAM-9, specifically, unlike you who made just a generalized statement about all VAM's (?) because those dies failed after striking only 300+ Morgan dollars. (NOTE: Some accounts put the number at 303, but 341 have been attributed.) In case you didn't know, the VAM-9 was discovered in 1966, but the coin has been around 133 years unlikie the BIE's that were produced in the 40's & 50's. By the way, two Presentation Pieces of the VAM-9, an ANACS MS62 and an ANACS MS64, were sold by Heritage from the Leroy Van Allen Collection in 2008 for $11,494 and $19,500 respectively. You can call me a fool and you can call my comments foolish, but the fact that you have chosen to comment negatively with only half-truths borders on ridiculous. Chris[/QUOTE]
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