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Edited by twohawks
06/22/2010 6:42 pm
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Russ, Sorry it's taken so long to respond to these awesome picks. I'm having some serious issues with the site from my work station. It's taken me 40 minutes to get to this point to be able to respond. Pages are taking over five minutes to load. Seems to only be this site. Bummer! How many clashes on the 86-O (7, 2 or 1)? Hope for the one clash. The others are beauties, too.  |
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I was asking about the 86-O VAM 1a. If the "E" is the only visible clash it's about double the price of the 7 or 2 clash coins. Then you showed me all the clashes on the 85-P.  |
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Russ, The single clash is priced higher due to rarity. Although not assigned a distinctive number, buyers look for the single clash. Points to check for additional clashing: 1. Obverse a. Neck - wing clash b. Hair V - S/T clash 2. Reverse a. E Letter Clash b. Right wing (your left) neckline clash c. Wreath - hair clashing and profile I'm far from a guru on these, but my guess would be the 7-clash was EDS, the 2-clash MDS, and then after all the polishing was done, they couldn't remove that darned 'E'. Single clashes go for about $100 in VF, the other two $50 each. |
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You know. I never understood what the whole commotion about ' VAM's are. And I still dont. So is a coin made more valuable based on minute tiny differences that identify a set of dies that it was minted by? Honestly, I'm trying to understand better. |
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That's OK Think of the 3 legged Buffalo nickel, All that happened on that coin was someone at the mint was a little long on the polishing of the die. Or the S over horizontal S 1909 penny. Some of the Vams as far as what you are looking at are just different. Some are very strong and different to the eye. Think of a Cud coin.. of all of the 100,000's coins struck by this die the coin you hold was or is one of it's last, some folks like them.  |
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BUDDY you just SUCK..........
thats some darn nice coins,,,,and vams to boot....
I wish the rain and tornados would do the same for me!!
funny I have some see thru message about composing my message.
but truley Russ you know what I mean.......Very very nice...
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Quote:You know. I never understood what the whole commotion about ' VAM's are. And I still dont. So is a coin made more valuable based on minute tiny differences that identify a set of dies that it was minted by? Honestly, I'm trying to understand better. ianmprice, It's 'OK' not to "get it". Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I didn't "get it" four years ago, then I noticed that coins that appeared to be common to me were selling for moon money ... several thousand dollars. I saw it as an opportunity to acquire low and sell high ... with the proceeds funding my other coin passions. All you had to do was study up on the diagnostics and start searching. My treasure hunter mentality took over. After many thousands of hours of study and looking my interest in VAMs took a different path. I've had some luck with "cherry picking" valuable pieces for much less than they are worth. But now I don't want to part with them ... only if I find a better example to I flip these. Bottom line ... the more you know about VAMs, the more you understand the madness. |
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