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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 2695175, member: 86305&quot;]I post often to VAMworld but I am new here.&nbsp; I have put up a web site that is purely educational and grows almost daily.&nbsp; While targeted very narrowly at the 1881-O Morgan we do offer a lot of other data on collecting Morgans and VAMing.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are roughly 670+ coins on the site now; all documented, PCGS graded, photographed, and professionally VAMed.&nbsp; Every VAM and die is cross referenced to make study easy.&nbsp; We hold the majority of all coins below AU grades, and from AU50 up we hold no less than 1% of each PCGS graded coins up to MS65DMPL.&nbsp; Right now we are saving our pennies to work on the last two grades.&nbsp; By the end of the year the inventory should approach 850 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to study grading we have 670+ examples laid out side-by-side.&nbsp; If you want to study VAMs then there are detailed explanations for every VAM.&nbsp; During the course of the study we have discovered 20 new VAMs for this series and the collection includes 90% of the identified VAMs for the 1881-O.&nbsp; The site now has about 6,000 high quality images for study.</p><p><br /></p><p>We also isolate toned coins for a separate view and do some explosions of regions of color so you can see the progression and range of colors.&nbsp; There are 82 toned coins with separate discussions.&nbsp; The toning ranges from barely detectable to highly collectible but all have something to teach us about Mint storage and/or exposure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each month we also do a little side trip into some aspect of VAMing, the 1881-O, New Orleans history, or history in general.&nbsp; 1881 was a very interesting year in our Nation&#039;s history as the South emerged from Reconstruction.&nbsp; We have even identified all the Mint employees by name and to the extent possible traced their lineage so we know some of the interpersonal happenings at the Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>From my background I tried to treat this as I would have in my working days and intentionally built in a lot of constraints.&nbsp; The site only has coins we own and we do not accept pictures or other data to post to the site.&nbsp; This gives us the luxury of actually pulling a coin or groups of coins for study without having to figure out who has one.&nbsp; All coins are PCGS graded to eliminate discussions about which service does what.&nbsp; All coins are photographed by VSS, so we have eliminated any discussion about the differences in photography.&nbsp; The VAM of every coin is verified by VSS and labeled before any coin is added to the site.&nbsp; And last but not least, any coin we feel might offer something new in the way of a discovery is verified by Leroy Van Allen.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you get a chance check out the site, come back often, and pass along the link to others that might benefit.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.1881o.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.1881o.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.1881o.com</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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