My 1882-CC Morgan Is VAM-2!

Slam-dunk PL, DMPL quite possible.

Now, which VAM-2 is it?

It's a beauty, MS-64 DMPL.

Thanks for confirming what my quick pics and coin in hand were telling me. I'll have to set up and take some better pics, and get a bulb type air blower to get the fine dust particles off of it. I don't really want to get a can near it. You never know when they're gonna wanna throw propellant! I had just wanted some pics showing the PL and had it set up so I could just set the camera on the desk for stability. Didn't want to set up the tripod for a couple quick pics. And I left it in the album, that's why the reverse shows that way, it looked funny when I rotated the pic.

It was a nice reminder of why I bid so heavy on it. The sellers pics, as I remember, showed the PL very nicely, and I was stunned when it arrived. When I first tipped it into the light I went blind for a second! I have a 98S that did the same thing when I got it last year. Instant blindness!

I have '82, '83, and '84 in GSA cases that I want to check now too! The '83 is an NGC banded 64 that is also PL, but not listed on the band, and the '82 my old dealer marked as a 63PL (he's pretty good on his grading and it is PL), and the '84 he has marked as a 64 and 3 O Doubled 18 Left. He had attached a copy of as page with the info and pic and diagnostics, but it shows no VAM number. Looking at Vamworld it's a VAM-3.

What a can of worms I have opened!




I looked at the A thru E and it did not have those other markers, only those for the straight VAM-2. No other clashing or die gouges. But that was cool enough in itself! I can see the attraction to this, although it was a lot of eye work, it was a lot of fun as well. Afterwards I was thinking that I should probably set up my DigitalBlue to look at them. Probably work a whole lot better than my 10x loupe. I think I'll try that tonight.

Ah, my heads startin' to hurt again!

Steve

Thanks Al (nice nickname, huh?)

Although I find it fascinating, and fun, I can also see that it gets deep. At times, probably deeper than I care to get. But that depth can mean money. I imagine if you really had a good grasp of the knowledge (a mini catalog in your head) it would certainly be easier.

I remember when I went to my first (and only, so far) coin show - the Long Beach Coin Expo in Long Beach, Cal. - while I was looking at some stuff at one of the tables there were some guys a couple of tables down looking at slabbed Morgans and that is when I first heard VAM being tossed around. These guys had glasses to the slabs and I'd hear "This one's a VAM-fillintheblank" and such things. I was already aware of VAMs, what they basically were and the names the term came from. And it seemed kind of overwhelming - all the varieties all those minute details. But now, I have a better knowledge of what it means, and it is surely interesting. Being able to say, with certainty, that these two coins came from the exact same pair of dies is very cool.

And looking over my coins in great detail while referencing VAMworld and being able to say "MY coin has all that stuff, it's a "VAM-THIS!" is even cooler!

Steve