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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 2724981, member: 86305&quot;]This month in our 1881-O Morgan Dollar web site we are launching into a study that we are calling &quot;fingerprints&quot; where we plan to use our inventory to examine each die for cracks/breaks and determine the uniqueness. This one will take a long time, so we have our study road map for the next year. There are 47 obverse dies and 18 reverse dies for just the 1881-O series.&nbsp; Not all have cracks and breaks, but most have some.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though the study is narrowly focus on the 1881-O Morgan Dollar, some of the technical findings will be applicable to all coins containing cracks and breaks.&nbsp; But please remember we are studying only cracks and breaks and largely ignoring other things we know normally go into die identification on purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because VAM 53 is very common in the 1881-O series, and we have a lot of them, it is a good jumping off point.&nbsp; We know that many if not most collectors on this site are not VAMmers, but the discussion should be of interest to any collector who encounters cracks and breaks.</p><p><br /></p><p>We also review a couple of books we read this past month.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to top it all off, we actually have the page up a day early, which I put into the miracle category. <a href="http://www.1881o.com/2017-05.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.1881o.com/2017-05.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.1881o.com/2017-05.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We hope you enjoy the discussion![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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