VAMWorld 2.0

Unheated. I am
On the road now so can do no pics for the next 10 days or so.

I have a garment cleaned much like the one pictured here and I love it. DO NOT spray yourself - it (at least the 1 I have) will shoot water through the skin and leave you with a water blister (can not be good 4 u - esp. if it is tap water....).

Good match for the VAM 12. The "long die break" really locks her in and I suspect would be easier to get listed. =The bonnet crack is really common and does not warrant listing but if you get displaced fields - LVA will list those. I have a total of 14 of these with varying degrees of cracking - fro...

wow!

I will see what i can come up with.

Any thoughts?

Chris got there first - Holy Shit!!!

Tarnish = rust

It really does not seem too far out of line for that rare a coin that is in the Top 100 set, the 8TF set ... They really are a bugger to find. IMHO

It does not constitute a new VAM as best I can tell (it never has been before and I think it would be terrible if we got LVA going on this...).... I would recommend attributing the coin without worrying about the denticles shift doubling.

strike doubling. VERY common....

love them little shiny things....

I have updated the SSDC registry to reflect this outstanding job!

Ok I did some more looking! The offending die chip on the denticle is found on all 8 tailfeathers VAM1 thru 17, VAMs 20 &21, including the proofs(14.3 & 14.8) and the VAM9 presentation piece. It is NOT on the 8TF VAMs 18,19,22 and 23. Talking with Mark I learned that the late Les Hartnett had done s...

The photo below is taken of an 1878-P VAM9 but the oddities attached to the denticles are also found on the 1878-P 8TFs. Odd....

I am going with counterfit. Pitting on reverse above leaves.....

These have been added to the SSDC registry. (Congratulations!)

Congratulations!!

Thanks to everyone who got to play "fix the pages"!