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 Posted 07/22/2015  10:57 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Papadoc75 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I'm pretty sure the die chip on the 1st 8 is a VAM, but I can't remember what number it is. I am not sure if there are any others so I posted pics of some interesting possibles.
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 Posted 07/23/2015  1:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I like your detail images.

Any way we can see the full faces? At this point I don't even know which mint it's from....
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Thanks SuperDdave. My phone has an excellent camera on it. Here are a couple closeups of the front and back. The coin appears to have been cleaned as some point which is unfortunate, but I'm still happy to own it. I'm still very new at spotting VAMs. Trying to learn as much as I can.




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Sorry I misspelled your name, SsuperDdave.
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Forgive me for getting lost; I get ditzy and forget I have things going on sometimes.

The die chips in the 8's are pretty common with Morgans, such that they are never more than convenient pickup hints when you see them. So, they aren't necessarily your smoking gun for attributing this coin; heck, it may be a known VAM which hasn't yet been found in a late die state with those chips.

So what we have here is an 1889-P with a Far Date, what looks like a double clash on the eagle's wing under "In," and not much else for attribution hints. It will require close study of date and ear doubling (if any) to refine the attribution further, and worse yet there may not be enough information out there to nail it.
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Wow! Awesome review SsuperDdave. Thanks so much!
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