TT VAM / DMPL Opportunities

Coxe

I was looking back over my notes as I was seeing my old DMPL and VAM purchases and it was startling to see how many I was going to bid at Teletrade that I didn't or didn't win, but sure wish I had. Here are some examples. Note that VAMs before 1997 were prior to the Top-100 publishing and the start of its popularization. Alos note that identified VAMs were all ANACS then.

VAMs:

1878 V-14.5 A53 575 3/00
1878 V-15 A62PL 500 8/99
1878 V-32 A63DM 550 9/99
1878 V-40 A63DM 240 8/99
1878 V-41 A63DM 260 6/99
1878 V-44 A62 1900 5/94
1878 V-70 A62PL 75 6/95
1878 V-79 A62DM 170 1/99
1878 V-145 A63 50 2/94
1878 V-171 A61 230 2/99
1879-O V-4 N58 85 12/99
1879-O A62 190 6/99
1880-S V-10 A64 75 12/99
1880-S V-11 A64DM 75 7/94
1883 V10 A40 65 5/99
1888-O V-1B N61 475 11/99
1888-O V-4 A61 900 9/94
1896-O V-4 A40 260 1/95
1899-O V-5 A50 75 10/94
1901 V-3 A55 625 10/93
1901 V-3 A55 450 4/99
1901 V-5 A58 320 7/95
1901 V-5 A55 160 5/00
1903-S V-2 A40 180 5/94
1903-S V-2 A50 550 2/95
1921-D V-1B A58 95 11/99
1922 V-2B A63 190 12/99
1922 V-2B A58 50 9/94
1923 V-1A A65 200 8/94
1928-S V-3 A62 75 9/94
1928-S V-3 A62 70 8/99
1934-D V-4 A55 170 9/99

prooflikes:

1879-CC P63DM 2500 9/95
1881-CC P65DM 775 7/94
1883-S P61DM 1800 6/93
1883-S P61PL 450 12/95
1883-S A63PL 1850 5/99
1885-CC P65DM 1150 11/94
1889-CC P62DM 9000 10/94
1889-CC P64DM 48000 5/99
1894 P64DM 7200 10/93
1894 P63DM 7400 4/00 (Jack Lee)
1894-O P61PL 1450 9/93
1895-S N64PL 3000 11/99
1896-O N63DM 8800 1/94
1896-S N62DM 1850 2/94
1896-S N63DM 6000 4/93
1897-O P62DM 5000 12/94
1897-O P62DM 5600 11/00
1904-S N63DM 3200 3/94
1921-S N64PL 725 6/99

dizzlecc

I completely understand where you are coming from.

I found some old records of mine during spring cleaning and looked back at what I missed out on and think what I would pay today for an example of the coin.

But I also look at some of the coins in the collection and think I did have some marks in the win column.

Hard to predict the future but easy to look back.

HighRelief

Yes, the good old days. It would be nice just to find some of those PL and DMPL Morgan's up for sale.

bestday

<< <i>Yes, the good old days. It would be nice just to find some of those PL and DMPL Morgan's up for sale. >>



I can remember a famous Boston dealer back in the 70s , that was famous for selling black and white Morgans..many selling for under 100.00.

Coxe

<< <i>Yes, the good old days. It would be nice just to find some of those PL and DMPL Morgan's up for sale. >>



Yeah, guys like us were gobbling them up. Sure wish I'd been a little more aggressive in hindsight.

And yes, in the 70s they were much cheaper. Still the premium asked over brilliant UNC was speculative at the time. Some thought things were getting insane.

sweetwilliet

I still kick myself for not being more aggresive and calling the person who sold an 1896-o ms60dmpl pcgs on ebay. The listing was up for a day, he likely got a call from someone else as it was taken off ebay and when I finally did email the seller, he said it was sold. Given it was a pop1 coin at the time and I saw it appear in a registry set, I know where it went.


Edited to add: Sorry, this was ebay, not TT.

coindeuce

Wow J.C. Am I ever glad you completely missed the '78 8TF VAM 14.7 ANACS-62 DMPL. Did your notes from that sale get eaten by the dog?

DennisH

John:

We've got to get serious about building a Go Back In Time machine!

Coxe

<< <i>Wow J.C. Am I ever glad you completely missed the '78 8TF VAM 14.7 ANACS-62 DMPL. Did your notes from that sale get eaten by the dog? >>



No. They are just highly disorganized. I am one of those people who writes on the backs of other papers and envelopes. At leats I do mark the sale and date on each.

So tell us about that 14.7. Sweet coin you got?

coindeuce

I confess. I'm just as disorganized. I'll have to sift through mountains of paperwork to find the T.T. receipt. I beleive it was purchased in 2001. Sure would be a lot easier if T.T. had a search function for key words.

OOPs!! the light just went on. It was a 14.12. That's even more of a surprise.