Coin show VAMS!! Rare? New Vam!?

coinkid855

I had a good two days at the coins show here in Jacksonville....I bought 16 Morgans, a Peace, a Trade, and a couple of Large Cents. Here are the pictures:

1876 S Trade Dollar




1904 S Circulated but still PL...




1881 Nice Toning




1883 S S/S VAM 6

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1889 MS63 with Heavy Clashes






1886 with nice toning




1884 O VAM 6 O/O

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1878 7TF VAM 198 Tripled Cotton, line under crossbars of 1 and 7, over-polished wings. RARE! Grade? P.S. I got this for $50

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1899 O VAM 31 Micro O ....Nice pickup for 12 bucks=)





1878 8TF ....I thought this was a VAM 9, First die pair, but I think I was wrong. Oh well, this was 12 bucks as well =p Here are the pictures...perhaps I was right in the first place. Oh, and it does not look as bad as it does in the pictures....

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1878 8TF DBL RIB ...new VAM?? This has a DDO and the spiked A reverse...

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But wait! There's more!

1878 8TF DBL Liberty...anyone care to attribute?

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And finally, some better pictures of some of my higher grade acquisitions...

1886 BU w/ nice golden toning




1899 O BU with light yellow toning and nice reverse die cracks but a weird black mark on the reverse....would acetone take this off?





1899 O BU Mostly white with some toning spots...

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What do you guys think?

STONE

I think you got quite the HAUL of coins. Very nice Trade Dollar.

I'm not much of a vam-mer, but interesting finds.

coinkid855

Thanks a lot! Anyone else?

ddbird

Neat haul...I like the trade..but those VAMS took some patience...

Neat finds

clarkbar04

I think that is a good haul, and I also think I could never become a VAM collector, since half the time I have no idea what the picture is showing.

DorkGirl

Nice!!

RVDavis

I live in Daytona and envious I could not get to the Jax show; great pickups indeed. I love the 78 7 tf reminds me of the Vam 44 I found decades ago. Some very nice coins.

messydesk

Your 8TF coins are VAM 14.1 (sorry, not 9), VAM 7, and VAM 21. All are common. The penultimate 99-O is probably exhibiting a planchet flaw or impurity. No getting that off with acetone if it is. The obverse is very nice, though.

coinkid855

Wow! Thanks for the information! However, I think I have to disagree with you on the VAM 7 designation.....I don't see any of the obverse markers....

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Oh, and also, does the VAM 14.1 have the RIB doubled in E Pluribus?

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Anyone?

Wolf359

<< <i>Anyone? >>



I concur on the 8TF VAM-7, there are multiple matching markers in the date. The way the '7' is doubled and the small die crack between 1 and 8 with small chip next to the bottom
of the 8. Yeah, the others are 14.1 and 21, John is 100% correct. The obverse clash position on 14.1 is nearly unique, a dead giveaway. If you buy the 8TF CD that John sells, you'll see all these markers and more.

BTW, that VAM-198 is a killer coin that looks BU, however if you only paid $50 I'm sure it must be AU, right?

eyoung429

You do realize how lucky you were that I couldn't make the show


Congrats on your haul !!!!

coinkid855

Wolf, the VAM 198 appears to be Unc....Do you have an idea of the value? Is it rare?




-Thanks eyoung =p

Wolf359

<< <i>Wolf, the VAM 198 appears to be Unc....Do you have an idea of the value? Is it rare?

-Thanks eyoung =p >>



Pretty rare to ultra rare in BU. One Price guide says 1000 in MS60, the other says better than 610. Get it into a PCGS MS60 holder, I'd guess 750 or so.

coinkid855

Nice.