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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2301312, member: 1892&quot;]Amen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;85-CC is a headscratcher. It&#039;s VAM-3 with the tilted mint mark, and the scratch visible here in the cheek detail (along the curve where cheek and neck meet) certainly looks to be also visible on the VAMworld plate coin, which is a rather later die cracked example:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.vamworld.com/1885-CC+VAM-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vamworld.com/1885-CC+VAM-3" rel="nofollow">http://www.vamworld.com/1885-CC VAM-3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody double-check that for me, please. It&#039;s an ideal pickup which needs to be on the VAMworld page if confirmed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;scratches&quot; on the cheek leave me wondering, as they have the same dull appearance as the planchet striations (which appear remarkably deep in the detail pic). If these were postmint gouges, I would expect them to strongly reflect the direct lighting. They don&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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