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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cascade, post: 2585153, member: 75984&quot;]Yup, one of my most famous discoveries, the 1879s vam 1B2, was a later die state of a previously known vam with a large gouge. I noticed that the entire obverse on mine was heavily polished in an attempt to remove the gouge. It almost looked like a cleaned coin but I knew better. The point is to question everything. The 91cc vam 7 spitting eagle is a great case study of this. For decades even the best of vammers just saw the &quot;spit&quot; and called it a vam 3. Then someone sent one to [USER=1765]@messydesk[/USER] and he did a double take on the date, he noticed it was a far date and started scratching his head then asked other vammers to check their vam3&#039;s and some noticed they too had the unusual far date vam 3 as well and thus the much more rare vam 7 spitting eagle was born.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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