Heck with the missing letters, where's the rest of my birdie!!!!!!!!! 1921 P Morgan

eyoung429

When M4M and I were looking at this auction, I thought that someone had gotten a little carried away with a dremel......but now that it is in hand, I can see that we may have been wrong. Coolest telltale is if you look where the wingtip should have been, it has a whole lotta cracks from stress.

MORGANHUNTER2

another discovery!!!

Jesus Christ- when ya gonna give the rest of us schmucks a chance!


Good pic

eyoung429

Hey, gotta make up fer lost time when I was doing wheaties....

JJM

oh my

1921obsession

I'm gonna have to start sanding letters off to keep up with you.

And you outbid me again last night on that VAM1G. No biggie - that was the third one on Ebay in the last two weeks, and I got the other two.

eyoung429

Actually that was the 3rd of 4

I got one other one roughly a 60 on a BIN with my son for 9.95 on Wednesday.....

MAD4MORGANS

COOL!!

Now you need to come up with a catchy name for it.

Here's my recommendation based on a historical fact.

(I personally believe the "Pinned Wing" die gouge was put on some of the coins intentionally to commemorate this event).

From U.S. Coin advisors.com:

"Another tangible link to the past is Peter the Mint Eagle. Sometime after mechanization arrived at the Mint in the earlier decades of the 19th century, a friendly bald eagle (apparently eagles still roamed freely in southeastern Pennsylvania less than 200 years ago) claimed the Mint as his home. Instantly, he became a popular mascot to the Mint employees, and was named Peter.

Unfortunately, Peter was mortally wounded when he got caught up inside a machine flywheel that started up suddenly. After a visit to a taxidermist, Peter was mounted and is on display today for all to see -- an inspiration from the past in the modern Mint. Legend has it that Peter was the model for the eagle on a few of our coins, such as the Flying Eagle cents of 1856-1858."

eyoung429

My son and daughter both came up with it at the same time::;


1921 Semi-Roadkill!!!!


heheheheh.....

I was just going to call it "Pressed Eagle".

VamGuy

<< <i>

I was just going to call it "Pressed Eagle". >>

Very cool coin.
How about calling it "Vanishing Eagle"?

CarlWohlforth

That is a wild one! You don't need a loupe to see that. I wonder how it happened?

bhartman35

"Cheney Target"

eyoung429

Carl W. : Grease filled die


B-man: Nah....would have been wounded eagle...

mgoodm3

nice strike thru

eyoung429

Thanks! I can't wait to get home and put this under a loupe....you know, I never even checked for VAM...just though how cool it would be to have that major of a strike through after it has been around for almost a hundred years and it's just now coming to light.

BTW....just looking at the pics, M4M may be right....it does look like a nice gouge going through the eagle's lft breast into the wing....

Hell, 2 for the price of 1!!!!!!!

RobJoyce1921dVAMguy

WOW! That's a keeper.

BlindedByEgo

It's broken - send it back.

eyoung429

Hmmmm, Only if you have a 1Z or a 1X for trade

Coxe

Cool. Phantom Wing.

eyoung429

I like that Coxe....but what about the missing head?

rec78

MORGANHUNTER2

How about

the left my wing at home and I'm losing my head Morgan!

MadMarty

Not being a VAM guy, isn't that a struck through grease or struck through cloth error and not a VAM?

It is very cool though!

lava

Very cool looking coin. It deserves a good name.

nesvt

Wild looking coin! Nice find! I'm not sure if Leroy is giving out new designations for grease-filled dies. Keep us posted. Looks very cool!

eyoung429

<< <i>Not being a VAM guy, isn't that a struck through grease or struck through cloth error and not a VAM?

It is very cool though! >>



It is stuck through grease and not considered a VAM per se. The remark for the VAM is the die gouge that is going from the left breast into the wing. That would be considered a VAM.

eyoung429

What is the approximate worth of one of these? I have an individual who contacted me this afternoon who has a similar one that is only missing the wing edge and the "A" of america.

I would like to make a decent offer on it and not seem like I am ripping him.

Thanks.