What's Your Favorite VAM?

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SonnyD
SonnyD Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
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My favorite is VAM-12 Alligator Eye

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  • Steven59
    Steven59 Posts: 11,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What's Your Favorite VAM?"

    I'd have to say Boris Karloff.................

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • SonnyD
    SonnyD Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
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    @Steven59 said:
    What's Your Favorite VAM?"

    I'd have to say Boris Karloff.................

    Nah you're way off. Peter Cushing.

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  • Mr_Spud
    Mr_Spud Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 8, 2021 8:33PM
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    I like thornheads

    Mr_Spud

  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 8, 2021 8:45PM
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    1888o Hot Lips


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  • Steven59
    Steven59 Posts: 11,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    So VAM's on Silver Dollars are really just die varieties like die cracks/ deformities like any other coin series have???

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • thefinn
    thefinn Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1883-O VAM-52A

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  • ChrisH821
    ChrisH821 Posts: 7,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The 1921 VAM 1H Peace Dollar

    Collector, occasional seller

  • messydesk
    messydesk Posts: 20,819 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    So many cool ones, hard to pick a favorite. One of them has to be the 1898-O VAM 20. The only repunched date where the initial punch was with the wrong size date punch. This is an illustration that Leroy Van Allen did on how the Indian cent date punch lines up with the underdigits. Super rare, too. Most known are circulated, which is already uncommon for a 98-O.

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  • SonnyD
    SonnyD Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
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    @Steven59 said:
    So VAM's on Silver Dollars are really just die varieties like die cracks/ deformities like any other coin series have???

    Yea, basically die varieties found in Morgan and peace dollars.

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  • Crypto
    Crypto Posts: 4,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The 1934d doubled dies

    11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set

  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1878 VAM 9 First Morgan dollar.

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  • FredWeinberg
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    That’s Bella Lugosi

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @FredWeinberg said:
    That’s Bella Lugosi

    Lol. Fred, you're even an error guy in noticing errors in one's posts. :D

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  • mbogoman
    mbogoman Posts: 5,342 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1888-O Morgan $1 Scarface terminal die state

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  • HalfDimeDude
    HalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 9, 2021 1:26PM
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    Im a big fan of the 1882 o/s top 100 3 actual vams 3,4,and 5 plus they are fairly easy found except in PL and camo.

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  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yup, Bela Lugosi and Abbott and Costello. What a combo. Peace Roy

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  • Crypto
    Crypto Posts: 4,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 9, 2021 2:17PM
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    This one

    11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set

  • morgansforever
    morgansforever Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 9, 2021 3:38PM
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    Bought this at a pawn shop for next to nothing, 20 or 30 bucks, when I first started expressing interest in Morgans. Neither the shop owner or me knew it was a VAM. Is it the most desirable VAM? Not really but it's pretty cool for the money spent, making it my favorite. The M image is fuzzy but I shot it with a Pringles can rig.

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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @morgansforever said:
    Neither the shop owner or me knew it was a VAM

    All Morgan dollars have a VAM number assigned to them.

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  • vulcanize
    vulcanize Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 9, 2021 4:15PM
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    I like the 1888 O Hotlips - something sultry about it. :D but also acquired the following R79 VAM 227-1 Slashed O Hit List in XF-40 with a population of 2 and only 25 higher.


    It was surely a learning experience for me making VAMs much more interesting concept.

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  • koynekwest
    koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    For Peace dollars it's a toss up between the 1922 "moustache, Vam 12a and the 1934-D doubled die obverse, VAMS 3 and 4.

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