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Hi everyone, This is my first post here. I'm excited to be able to communicate with everyone and I appreciate any help that I may receive from others on this forum. Thanks in advance. I am trying to figure out this 1878-P Morgan dollar. There is some fairly dramatic doubling (tripling?) of the Eagle's legs, but it doesn't match up with any of the other 1878-P VAM's that I have researched so far. Again, many thanks for your time and help!  Michael      Edited by Bluish
06/06/2015 12:02 am
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Pillar of the Community
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 ... Wow! Your first post is a VAM question. That's awesome  I like you already! What you have here is a b1 long nock reverse so I'm going to let the guy who discovered the b1 reverse (if I remember right) chime in here. His name is SsuperDdave and his ability to share knowlede, especially when it comes to VAMing, is bar none... Stick with ccf and you'll learn something new every day! Edited by Cascade
06/06/2015 12:48 am
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What you have here is a b1 long nock reverse so I'm going to let the guy who discovered the b1 reverse chime in here. I didn't "discover the B1 reverse;" I just found a new one to go with the dozen or so already known.  Welcome to Coin Community, Bluish. This one is not a B1 reverse - it's a 7/8TF Reverse, VAM-31. The broken N and M in UNUM are a giveaway. http://www.vamworld.com/1878-P+VAM-31 |
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to CCF Bluish. It's nice to have another VAMmer on board. |
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  ... Listen to these two guys Bluish. I'm only right 50% of the time as a novice and am still learning. SD & d700 are VERY knowledgeable VAMers along with many others here. Vamming cam become addictive if you haven't found that out already. Hope you stick around SD, which b1 is yours? |
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SsDd is the one to listen on this subject. I was a normal coin collector before I found this site and really learned about VAMs from SsDd. Now I have north of 400 Morgans with about 75% attributed thanks to what I have learned here on CCF. |
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Wow, thanks to all of you for such an amazingly warm welcome. I *really* appreciate it so much! VAM-31 it is! Thank you! That was so fast that I'm left wondering if I owe someone money...  The world of VAM's is so interesting. I will be reading as much as possible... Thanks again guys, Michael |
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SD, which b1 is yours?
85. The listed discoverer is (apparently former, we haven't heard from him in a while) CCF Moderator Bryan1315, who is a nut for the B1 reverses. He emailed me images of a coin he'd picked up, which he'd attributed as a VAM-80. Even in the ebay pics I could see the reverse die cracks didn't match up to VAM-80, and I let him know that. The rest is history. All of a sudden, people started looking closer at their B1's. More 85's were discovered, some in existing collections of VAMmers, and even more extraordinarily another B1 - VAM-86 - was discovered as a result. Question everything. Be the guy who looks again at even the ones you know. |
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WOW SD! I'm just starting to read that 25 page original thread. That discovery really was a splash event. Old VW threads were boiling over it. Either wanting one or mad because it made all "complete" b1 sets suddenly incomplete. That must have been such an adrenaline rush for you and many others!
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SD, your question everything mindset reminded me of something I saw a while ago on history detectives. Apparently 30 yrs before john Wilkes booth shot lincoln, his father wrote a drunken rant letter to president Jackson threatening to kill him. Booth scholars worldwide and in publication took this letter to be a forgery base on assumptions. But after the diligence and resources of the show they proved it to be real which I'm sure threw all booth & lincoln historians for a loop. http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetec...ooth-letter/ |
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