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Posted 03/14/2010 9:58 pm

I haven't had any luck identifying this VAM if it exists. There seems to be a long die gouge or something that caused a raised spike at the bottom of the eagle's left wing. See what you think and thanks for any input. nlp

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Shot taken the other 20 degrees

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Posted 03/15/2010 02:10 am

that last shot is much better.....a clean shot of the die gouge......don't have an answer for you as many times one small feature is not enough to claim a new variety...LETS SEE what the Vam god's say

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Posted 03/15/2010 09:03 am

The majority of 1883-O varieties have to do with mint mark or date doubling. This gouge is likely an unrecorded feature of an existing VAM, or a feature considered to small to mention in the title (I didn't read the description of every single 1883-O VAM before posting). So, what we do here is use the known identifying pickups to determine which variety it is, and then consider whether it's a previously-unknown feature. That could lead to a minor revision of the description of the known VAM, or maybe even a new sub-variety.

Either way, the study needs to start with mint mark and date.

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Posted 03/15/2010 10:36 am

Thanks, SuperDave, I'll start there and see if I can get on the right track. nlp

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Posted 03/15/2010 10:51 am

I found it. It's a VAM-1D wing gouges. It does have the gouge on the eagles right wing also. woohoo! nlp

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Posted 03/15/2010 11:49 am

I believe you have a winner.

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