Got this 1922-s recently in a lot, (yes I know it definitely looks and is cleaned at one point), I just can't find the Vam for this die break on VAM world. Thoughts?
Great closeup pic. It would be better to show both sides of the entire coin. No guess at this point. Thanks for sharing.
Oops sorry yes it’s a d I somehow got mixed up with several coins when asking the question. I knew it was a d when I was looking for varieties and vams, so I’m still in the dark on this one
All Morgan and Peace Dollars are VAM's. Maybe a new one. I did a quick look and didn't find it. @messydesk is the authority on VAM's.
Ignore the R-numbers on VAMs. They're estimates made when the variety was listed, in this case 2005. They are not being assigned to new VAMs and are slowly being removed from the listings on VW. The baseline estimate is R-5 using the rarity scale in VAM, which isn't terribly useful in the first place. Leroy called this R-6 because of all the radial die cracks indicating the die probably was not long for this world at the time. More important is coolness and demand. People like heavy radial die cracks, so this one scores higher than average on those scales.
The "search" function on the VAMWorld wiki is very powerful if you know the right keywords to use. In this case, I searched for "1922-D" (in quotes) and the word "radial". VAM 19A was the third search result. Curiously, the term "radial" isn't used to describe the crack through IN, but rather the crack by the L. I'll add a comment to the page to make the search work better. I'll admit that it does take a little while to learn what to search for, but we try to keep the language for the VAM specifications predictable, which helps.
I think I missed it because the beginning of the description starts with doubled Eagle's legs and I didn't read farther.
