USPS almost lost my cherrypick! :(

This NEVER happens to me but I guess my number was up. It was a nice $35 cherry but things could have gone horribly wrong. Thank god the seller put the coin in a corrugated cardboard thing AND most importantly in the fold of the invoice paper. Must have been machine damage.

Pic as I got it with gaping hole. Then opening it. Which, on a silver lining note, did at least make it for easy opening lol...

 

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Phew! Glad you got it, if only by the luckiest of lucky moments.

Reminds me of the time someone sent me 5 rolls of NIFC Kennedy Halves in a Priority Mail Small Flat Rate box...without taping ANY of the edges. Box was open on one end when I got it...somehow (no idea how) the coins were all in there...

...which was a much better result than the previous person who'd done that exact same thing, and I received an empty box.

 

Man, I'm so glad that one actually made it to you with the contents.. You had some seriously good karma banked up for that one.

 

Glad you got it unharmed. That is definitely a burn from getting stuck in a machine. It happens to plastic bags a lot. Under packing to save a few cents is not worth it.

 

Nice! I see that E. I have been searching for that one too. Was it noted by the seller?

 

Nope. And how a seller can miss something like this from looking at it, to taking the pics, to uploading the pics says a lot about cherrypicking.

 

Love Morgans but just getting into VAM's, that is what you are referring to? Are you referring to the clashed E under the tail feathers?

 

Yes he is. This is a VAM 1A4. The 91o VAM 1A series is the strongest E clash of the entire series.

 

Oh, no you didn't. O_O

Yeah, it looks like a burn from sticking in a machine it was too wide for. Talk about luck - don't take any chances for a while.

 

Just wait until I get today's mail

 

I have long since learned to suspend my sense of disbelief at what you come up with.

 

I understand what a clash is, but how did an E get to where it is?

 

From the E in Liberty on the obverse.

 

But if it is two dies hit one another, wouldn't that put the E in the UNITED field?

 

No, it's the E in LIBERTY in Liberty's cap not the E of E PLURIBUS UNUM.

 

Yeah. If I ship in a mailer its always a small paper/bubble envelope inside a medium paper/bubble. I would never personally ship in one of these thin plastic envelopes. Even if coin was in a corrugated cardboard thing.

 

thanks, got it now. Did not occur to me to look there, but that is where it points to.

 

Google "Morgan dollar overlay" and go to photos and you can see where one side of a coins design will end up on the other side during a clash event barring any rotation. You can do this for other series as well.