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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2387704, member: 1765&quot;]Just got done with the dinner dishes, so now I&#039;ll try and answer as many questions as I can before playing a few levels of TurboTax.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the die crack:&nbsp; Not something listable by itself, although die cracks work as fingerprints that can confirm an attribution by matching them to another coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>On sending to Leroy:&nbsp; Leroy Van Allen is the only person that can add a VAM, but (1) it hasn&#039;t been established this is something new, and (2) he&#039;s in the middle of moving down the block and won&#039;t be able to look at coins until at least mid-April</p><p><br /></p><p>On third party grading services:&nbsp; PCGS and NGC only attribute the most popular VAMs that are well documented in respected references beyond the VAM book.&nbsp; It may be only 10% of the entire VAM catalog, but that&#039;s still 600 varieties.&nbsp; ANACS and I will attempt to attribute them all, but it can be difficult for some.&nbsp; Most dates that haven&#039;t been followed closely have a couple ambiguities and errors in the attribution materials.&nbsp; Nobody maintains a collection of all VAMs for quick comparison, and nobody has studied 1884-O enough to shake out all the question marks in the catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>On what it&#039;s worth:&nbsp; Most VAMs have no premium over the value of an unattributed coin because they&#039;re common enough to satisfy demand.&nbsp; This would be one of them.&nbsp; The only 84-O that are worth premiums are VAMs 6, 10, and 25, and those premiums aren&#039;t terribly large.&nbsp; VAM 25 might be the best of the three.</p><p><br /></p><p>On rarity numbers:&nbsp; These have nothing to do with value.&nbsp; There can be only one or two known of a particular VAM, but without demand, there is no premium.&nbsp; The rarity numbers are merely an estimate at the time of cataloging of how scarce a particular die pair might be.&nbsp; Some have turned out to be quite wrong, but there&#039;s not a robust process for correcting them at this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>On what it is:&nbsp; Not sure yet.&nbsp; The top of the 8 looks doubled.&nbsp; Not so sure about the 1.&nbsp; The vertical die scratch right of the should help.&nbsp; VAM 47 does seem possible based on date position, but the top of the 8 bugs me.&nbsp; If you could post a picture of the mint mark and Liberty&#039;s ear similar to the 5 yellow pictures posted on page 2, that would help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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