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Another nice GSA Morgan; I think this is the best of my three 1884 CC GSA's. VAM-3A is another heavily clashed (3+ clashes) VAM, featuring a die break/chip at the top of the left wreath, a counter-clash break behind the cap at the ribbon area, and on the right inner side of the wreath, near the top, you can find two V-shaped clashes, with a third V-shaped clash a bit lower down the wreath. The date is doubled, and a die crack runs along the bottom of the numerals. The VAM 3 stages seem to be less common than the VAM 4 and its die stages, although both the VAM 3x and 4x coins are given as R4-R5 scarcity. My opinion is that this coin, which has great luster and remarkably clean surfaces, is MS 64. The clash marks are clearly visible, and the freshness of the strike is attested to by the planchet roller marks on the cheek and nearly unbroken frost. What do you think? 63? 64? 65?   Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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I agree with you on all aspects of your opinion, paralyse. 64 with a terrific strike.
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I'd be at 64. Just a couple less marks, regardless of their description, on the cheek, would have moved it to a 65 pretty smoothly.
Why, pray tell, did you decide to nab these four?
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I have had these four coins for a couple of years, and the pictures I had previously taken ranged from bad to terrible, so I re-shot them for the Days Of Morgans thread. :) As an aside, the four coins I posted are all complete with their OGP (cards and boxes), and I paid less than $200 for each of them. The two VAM 4's will be sold at Heritage in an upcoming auction. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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63 here. That chin's in tough shape.
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08/28/2017 3:58 pm
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I do believe we could have a pretty good war with the 63's against the 64's. It's just nice that the AU and 61's stayed home  |
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i'll settle the dispute...MS63+  |
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Posted 08/27/2017 8:05 pm
