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Scooby Due Pillar of the Community United States 4000 Posts	Posted 06/23/2010 10:57 pm As if I'm not having a hard enough time VAMming Morgans, I had to go and buy a couple of Peace dollars. When VAMming Peace dollars, is there a sequence you start with like on Morgans? Bear with me on the pictures, I'm still trying to get the hang of photographing silver, especially through plastic. Is this doubling on the motto, or on the eagle's leg, leaves, or berries on the reverse? Edited by Scooby Due 06/23/2010 10:58 pm Report this Post to the Staff

twohawks Pillar of the Community United States 1551 Posts	Posted 06/23/2010 11:14 pm I do not do Peace dollars very well, I have them BUT!. There is a link on VW that go's over it right on the home page, Thats a start. Russ Report this Post to the Staff
Scooby Due Pillar of the Community United States 4000 Posts	Posted 06/23/2010 11:21 pm Been there, and as with the other dozen Morgans I've been trying to VAM, keep coming up with a dead end. I was just wondering if this was doubling or no? Report this Post to the Staff
Scooby Due Pillar of the Community United States 4000 Posts	Posted 06/25/2010 12:38 am OK! Someone want to help me with what IS the next intelligent question? Report this Post to the Staff
MorgansRmine Pillar of the Community United States 1219 Posts	Posted 06/25/2010 07:07 am Scooby, these are another thorn in my side. I feel LVA is handing out new Vam#s where they are not warrented. As for the pictures, nothing shows that would lead me to believe there is doubling on the coin. Best advice I can give is join Vamworld. There are a couple of folks on there that collect Peace dollars. Report this Post to the Staff
zeewool Pillar of the Community 3660 Posts	Posted 06/25/2010 09:50 am Not a Peace person either Scoob....heck, I'm not even a Morgan person, but in answer to your question, no, that is not doubling. Reinforced by nothing other than my own speculative imagination, here is my very tongue in cheek rendition of Peace dollars and those who collect them: As a die wears, the sharp edges of the die designs break, crumble, and round over. This is countered by resurfacing the die ('polishing' as it is generally referred to). The problem with Peace dollars is that the 1922-1935 dies were of such low relief that overpolishing became a hazard to be reckoned with or avoided far more so than with the overly high relief of the 1921 versions. Consequently, most Peace dollars have the 'appearance' of a weak strike, and lack the allure of previous dollars. A very beautiful design, both obverse and reverse, fatally flawed by the shallow engraving of the relief issue. All vammers (but especially Peace vammers) in my opinion, exhibit the personality characteristics of masochists with their insatiable desire to learn and collect, despite the fact that they themselves wonder from time to time just why they derive such pleasure from the pain of attribution. If you feel compelled to jump off of the cliff into the deep abyss of Peace dollars, then MorgansRmine gives probably the best advice anyone could give. My advice is to stay away from the Peace dollars Scoob. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Report this Post to the Staff
Scooby Due Pillar of the Community United States 4000 Posts	Posted 06/25/2010 1:10 pm Couldn't help but chuckle at your post zee. I think I might stick with the Morgans, they're tough enough. I don't know what I would do if Lincoln collectors starting documenting every die crack, break and clash. Report this Post to the Staff
zeewool Pillar of the Community 3660 Posts	Posted 06/25/2010 6:57 pm Report this Post to the Staff
twohawks Pillar of the Community United States 1551 Posts	Posted 06/25/2010 7:43 pm Peace dollars give me driam bamage so unless I see a big glob of metal or a crack that is raised I leave it in its resting spot. I think if you studied them awile it may get "easier", Use of that term is stated with a smile Vamming is like STAR WARS.... you have YODA stateing DO OR DO NOT there is no try!! And Darth Vader is tring too convert you to the Vamming side But in this case O-B One is also WAVING HIS HAND useing the Jeti mind trick stating!! YOU MUST LOOK FOR THE CLASHED (E) Report this Post to the Staff
zeewool Pillar of the Community 3660 Posts	Posted 06/26/2010 6:35 pm Stars wars predates me, never saw the movie either. Which one of those characters resembled the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz? Report this Post to the Staff
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