What Would You Do?

I know ebays rules when someone makes you a offer to take something off of ebay and sell it to them so you wont have to pay the ebay fees but this person doesn't even know its on ebay, he just made a offer after seeing it. And they said they would send it to leroy van allan because his definition of a VAM7a would need to be revised because this one doesn't have the large die cracks but shows all the other characteristisc, it even has the starting of a squiggly line that is alot deeper right under the large die crack shown in the picture, it looks like this is a very early state of the vam-7a. And I'm not really asking what should I do, I just want to know what would you do if you were in this situation

Ok I ended the auction early but would still like to hear what others think about this

I did not end the auction to sell it to make a bigger profit, I ended it because I am now thinking twice about selling it all together

I guess its a good thing no one on here showed any interest in it because I would have shipped it to them and would have never knew what it was until they told me after they found out for themself, I knew it was a VAM-7 but didnt know all the other stuff about it being a EDS of a VAM-7a and the only PL known so far

I think you did the right thing to pull the auction while you think it over. New information changes everything. I'm glad there were no bidders as no feelings to get hurt.
No reason not to have it seen by Mr. Van Allen yourself. Perhaps wind up with a letter stating his conclusions.

Bryan,
If you didn't realize what you had then I would have done the same thing and pulled it from ebay and deceided what to do with it after that. Now if you would have had a bid,thats a different story.
Just for my own interest where is the VAM 7 die crack located? Dang, I have to get me a VAM book.

When I inherited about 55-60 Morgans I was overwelmed trying to attribute them. I sent them to messydesk on the other sits to attribute. He has a pay service does a nice job . The ones he could not attribute he sent to Leroy Van Allen for me and they are now listed on the update page. I sent messydesk a PM asking for Leroy's address.

Bryan, I would have done what you did under the circumstances. Since there were no bids, you had a potential offline buyer who had no knowledge of the ebay auction, and new information came to light about the Morgan, I would have pulled it. The buyer seems to be knowledgeable enough about Morgan VAMs, so he knows what he's getting into. But, unlike you, I would have definitely sold it; I need a new rear axle assembly (both axles, bearings, and differential) for my Jeep Grand Cherokee and need to scrounge up all the loose change I can find.

Fred

You wouldn't believe me if I told you, But I guess I am going to give it a try. I have only been collecting since September of 2005 and I started out with 0 coins in my collection. I started looking and decided I really liked the Morgan dollars so I started purchasing raw morgans from ebay. I thought they were real high grade stuff (you know how you are when you first start out, everything you touch and look at is a MS-65 or better) anyhow I was searching on ebay and I found something I had never seen before in auction, it was a VAM and I was in awe and didnt know what the heck it was but I knew I just had to have it. It was a MS-62 VAM-83 with a High 1 graded by NGC and when I finally received this coin and compared it to my raw coins I knew then I would never buy another raw coin atleast until I had some better skills (which I havent aquired yet)anyway this became the coin that started my #1 registry set of B1 reverse Morgans. At first I didnt quite understand the differences between grading services and I bought one NTC and one PCI Morgan and after comparing them to the NGC and PCGS coins I had then aquired that was supposed to be the same grade I could tell the difference so them coins went back on ebay. So from then on it has been NGC and PCGS with an occasional ANACS coin if it was something I needed for a registry set (they had to be crossed before I could do that) and I started looking at pricing of the coins and I decided that MS-64 was the best Bang For The Buck so that was all I collected and never bought anything under that.I soon joined NGC's Collectors-Society and was able to send in my coins for crossover and could send in some of the better raw coins I had aquired with the 5 free ticket that they gave me for joining. I had 1 bodybag and the rest that I thought were high grade coins werent so high grade, the highest was a MS-62 1891 and the lowest being a 1882 O/S VAM-5 Broken s which was a TOP 100 coin so all wasn't lost. I know this is becoming a long story so I will end it here, but I aquired 100% of my items from internet auctions and none of my morgans were given to me at all. I did however get a pretty large coin collection (well 1/3 of his collection) from my grandfather a couple months ago but I havent even inventoried those to see what was actually in there.So there ya have it and I am proof that it doesn't take a long time to aquire just about a full date set of Morgans in MS-64 condition even if you are limited to internet sales (even though you may have paid a little to much at times, there was times you paid alot less then they were actually worth).

Thank You Joeyuk for the information