1934 D

Stewart is correct. VAM-3......nice find.

All Morgans and Peace dollars are VAM's, the type of VAM it is as well as grade determines it's value. Many are very common, and some very rare! I tend not to look at the are rating of a said coin, I also have a hard time with Peace dollars

the things that hurt me the most is when a coin is wiped.....like this one.......nice grade and VAM... lost in the wipe...

I blew up the available pictures and played with the contrast
and inverted the colors to make it a negative.
Both reverse shots. One from this thread and
one from "Post a Peace dollar" Thread

I am not saying it is not a wipe but I would like to see
larger resolution photos or coin in hand before I agree
that it is a wipe.
I am having a hard time seeing wipe marks on the tops of
the rays and on the Eagles left shoulder and wing.
The second questionable area running up the left side of the
coin through the letters of "UNITED" could possibly
be a wipe also but with the characteristic low relief of the
Peace dollar reverse lettering it is hard to tell from the available
photos. Just to the south of the "U" of United there is a small
raised area in the shape of a bar running North-South.
which "could" be a die gouge indicating that a mint worker
"might" have gotten a little over zealous with a grinder
trying to polish up the die to remove some kind of defect.
In my study's of the Eisenhower dollar series over the last few years
I have seen some pretty messy die polishing that has left it's
marks all over the coins produced from these fixed dies.
and sometimes in photos what ends up being Die Polish Lines
looks like a serious wipe on a coin.

"The exchange of ideas leads to the advance of knowledge
which can only better our chosen hobby"

Terry

I believe on this site you have to take the good with the bad.

I do believe, that at sometime in the past,something got on this coin and someone wiped it off.
That is why I acquired this coin for $32.00. I think it would be at least a AU coin
if not for the coin having the wiping and maybe double the cost.

But... in hand it is not as noticeable. I took the pictures with a Canon DSLR 8MP camera.
I had two desk lamp shining on the coin. The first pictures, I took for Stewart's post
I was hand holding the camera, causing a little blurring. For the VAM post I sat the
camera down and took pictures with the delay shutter function. This allowed more detail
of the coin to show. I also used the auto color function on Picasa3 to take out some of
the yellow.

I guess I am saying all this, because as most of you know, pictures like this will show
every flaw in much more detail.

I am still excited that Stewart (Terry) pointed out to me, that this might be a VAM. Because
it is my first one, for me, to be identified.

If what little research I have done so far, it might be a Top 50 VAM. And this one being a
VAM 3 (with the filled D) and not the more rare micro D VAM 4

If I am saying any of this wrong, please excuse me. My experience with VAM's is only from
reading a couple post on this site, and some recently about this particular coin.

Again thank you all for responding, it is a good learning experience for me.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "wipe" was incidental rather than deliberate. The result from a TPG would be the same, though.




Absolutely, and it's something we all need to consider when evaluating photographs of coins.