NEW VAM 25A 1921-P MORGAN IFR

TRADECOIN

NEW VAM 25A 1921-P MORGAN DOLLAR IFR .
DOUBLED JAW , LIPS, NOSE TIP , AND LEFT STARS . DIE MARKERS OF DIE POLISHING LINES BELOW HAIR CURL ON FOREHEAD & HORIZONTAL DIE POLISHING LINES BETWEEN EAGLES LEG AS DESCRIBED AND PICTURED IN THE 1921 IR GUIDE .
UNLISTED DIE GOUGES NEXT TO DENTICLES ABOVE S IN STATES & FILLED DENTICLES ABOVE F IN OF.
THE DISCOVERY COIN IS A VERY NICE WHITE DOLLAR GRADED ABOUT MS-63/64 RAW. I WILL BE SENDING IT TO ANACS FOR SLABING .

Wolf359

Coool, nice find. Never heard of a filled denticle before. Goes to show 1921 coins are still an undiscovered country.

Now, please turn your caps lock off.

Coxe

Before you send it off, check the reeding. Would it happen to have wide reeding that Leroy missed?

Great find too! Tough to get a new 21-P or 21-D with all the really good VAMmers out there looking at them closely in quantity.

messydesk

Nice. I've seen the diagnostic above the S in STATES before on VAM 25. I know that the VAM 27 and 27A comes with and without the spikes in the same area, but I don't know about the 25 and 25A. It would be interesting to see which is the scarcer of the two if they both exist.

Coxe

I would bet the VAM-25 always came that way and inherited the reverse from the VAM-27 pairing, but wasn't noted until this discovery. The likelihood that the a reverse would be used with one onverse, then another, and then the original is somewhat improbable.

RobJoyce1921dVAMguy

Is your coin a wide reed? VAM-27A is a wide reed with that same gouge in the denticles. I'll need to pull some examples and see if it has the other feature you note.

Cool discovery!

Rob

Coxe

Yeah, he said it was a 25A. The 25 has wide reeds. Looks like the same reverse as for the 27A though.

ibzman350

Congrats........................



Time to recheck all my 21's...............




Herb

messydesk

The 25 and 27 reverses are definitely different. While the gouges are similar, they are in different places. This brings up an interesting point in that none of the infrequent reeding dies were used in more than one die marriage except for VAM 44 and VAM 45, which supposedly share the same D2 reverse die but a different collar die, where VAM 44 is infrequently reeded and VAM 45 isn't. Of course, it just may be the case that when the mint swapped one 1921 dollar die, they automatically swapped the other.

TRADECOIN

The coin is wide reed edge .
I would like to slab the dollar but then we would not be able to see the reeded edge . Any grading service that offers holders with the ability to see the egde reeding ??

Wolf359

Maybe the new ANACS holders.