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New Member
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I am hopeful but also realistic. I'd really appreciate some expert advice with this coin. It looks like someone tried to make jewelry out of it. I would expect it to have a smooth indent if it were made with a tool? I am very new to coins so any information would be great. Thanks. I have been studying VAMs but it's pretty daunting. If anyone sees anything special please let me know. Thanks again. Image with the flash to show contrast compared to natural light of the others. Ive taken several more pics from different directions, with and without flash, with different magnification but with the same phone camera. If you would like to see them and think they would help, please let me know.     *** Moved by Staff moved to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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New Member
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Still trying to navigate this site. I'll try harder to get my posts in the right spot. Still a nube.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Pretty sure what's going on above Liberty's forehead is post-mint damage or PMD. It looks like digs or gouges into the surface of the coin. As for VAM attribution, dive in! It's alot of fun. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Spinning a knife blade perhaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@AKNuGuy, looks to me like PMD. Based on the location, I'm guessing that someone was starting to put a hole in it such as to put it on a lanyard or necklace, but then changed their mind. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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New Member
United States
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That's kinda what I figured but was still hopeful. I read that dies sometimes break and a piece gets embedded in the coin. Being able to see some of the original detail in the gouge made me think it might be possible.
IF it were mint damage, would that increase the value?
As it Is, is it worth any more than melt value?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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xf details cleaned  to the CCF 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.comEdited by numismatic student
02/28/2018 10:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's not mint damage, so it does not increase the value.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hello AKNuGuy and welcome to CCF. There may be a silver lining to this cloud ... Go to VamWorld and compare your coin to the 1878 7TF Van 123. I see some things in your coin that get my Vamdar tingling, but the pictures aren't quite sharp enough to confirm. The Van 123 is far and away the rarest 7TF VAM and carries a substantial premium ... significantly higher than melt value! Let us know the outcome and good luck! |
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Pillar of the Community
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The correct term is VAM ... auto-correct strikes again. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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PMD and cleaned. to the CCF!
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Posted 02/28/2018 7:57 pm
