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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2387490, member: 1892&quot;]Yes, which is why I requested more than just an image of a die crack. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, I was out on one of my walks earlier, and couldn&#039;t do much from my phone.</p><p><br /></p><p>You were nice enough to provide additional images, and - believe it or not - they&#039;re enough for me to come up with a distinct possibility, based on something that&#039;s not even recorded for the VAM.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two most important details for 1884-O are the date (location and doubling) and the mint mark (shape - round or oval - and doubling if present). Yours is a Normal Date, Oval O type, and your detail image of the mint mark is good enough to conclusively eliminate any of the O/O varieties. That left me only 7 VAMs to really consider.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your date detail isn&#039;t quite as good, but it was good enough. There is no really pronounced doubling, just some subtle doubling under the upper crossbar of the 1, or so it seemed.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s actually a *good* thing, because it eliminates most of the potential choices, which have more pronounced doubling. What&#039;s left? This:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.vamworld.com/1884-O+VAM-47" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vamworld.com/1884-O+VAM-47" rel="nofollow">http://www.vamworld.com/1884-O VAM-47</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the fun part. Look at the first 8 in your date, and the first 8 of the (sole) image at VAMworld. See the horizontal bar in the center between the upper and lower lobes?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m tentatively calling it VAM-47, and that bar in the 8 could be a &quot;killer&quot; pickup for what is otherwise a very innocuous variety, since there are now two known examples of it. If this be the case, it needs to be added at VAMworld, as should the die crack if you could get an image of that area similar to the one of the date. You may have just helped progress the cause of VAMming. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> [USER=1765]@messydesk[/USER], could you possibly offer an opinion?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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