Major CoinFacts glitch with Morgan dollar VAMs - anyone know what's going on? [Now fixed!]
IkesT
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So, with my most recent PCGS order, I submitted three silver dollars under the Express tier for variety attribution. All three were attributed incorrectly, but more on that when my TrueView photos become available.
One of the coins submitted is an 1878-S VAM-72, which is one of the rarest long nock varieties. PCGS has the coin wrongly attributed as VAM-16 on my order (the VAM-16 is a short nock variety with an obverse DDO, so these two varieties would normally never be mistaken for each other). I went over to the CoinFacts website to investigate further.
Turns out there is still an existing page for the 1878-S VAM-72, but the 1878-S VAM-16 page has also been populated with the VAM-72 TrueView images. Anyone know how or why this is going on, and how many other VAM pages have been corrupted?
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1878-s-1-vam-72-long-arrow-shaft-top-100/133853
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1878-s-1-vam-16/40526
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Update: My VAM-72 label was fixed in QA, but the 1878-s VAM-16 page on CoinFacts is still populated with the VAM-72 TrueView images. Once again, does anyone know what's going on, and if this is happening on other CoinFacts pages?
The VAM-72 TrueViews have now been removed from the VAM-16 page:
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1878-s-1-vam-16/40526
Looks like someone reads threads here!
Coin Photographer.
@PCGS_Hy very kindly contacted me proactively with a solution for the incorrect labels, and I'm assuming that they are also the one who helped fix the CoinFacts situation. Thank you, Hy; your help is very much appreciated!