Triple Blossom...

BIGDAVE · November 22, 2005 8:36PM

Is this Normal on a Vam 38 ????
It is in a 1878 pcgs 7/8 Strong holder the rev is exactly like on page 151 vam38 B/ah 5tf

joeyuk · November 22, 2005 9:55PM

Here is a recent thread. link

BIGDAVE · November 22, 2005 10:02PM

This is a vam 38 I think ????
the vam 44 has 3 tf Mine has 5

VamGuy · November 22, 2005 10:18PM

Post a pic of the tailfeathers.

nesvt · November 22, 2005 10:33PM

I just sent my 1878-P VAM 38 into ANACS. I don't remember seeing any triple blossom. There was another recent post about the VAM 38. Photos of the poster's coin and my coin are available here. Don't see any photos of the blossom, but there are other obverse diagnostic images.

BIGDAVE · November 22, 2005 10:36PM

As i said a B/Ah 5tf Rev

Wolf359 · November 22, 2005 11:11PM

Are the leaves tripled as well? Are the other vam-38 die markers present or missing from the obverse?

BIGDAVE · November 23, 2005 1:27AM

Jack

The upper leaf is doubled on the Right, The wheat leafs are all doubled ,
It Has all the Marking's of a vam 38 obv and rev
except The triple blossom and leafs and wheat leafs..

Wolf359 · November 23, 2005 2:10AM

I've had a couple situations like these with vams where something unusual popped up, but other
known markers were present.

I would expect the vam-38 obverse markers would be missing if this is a new obverse, especially the
die marker in Y of LIBERTY. Based on Leroy has written me, the markers take precedence, so I'd have to say it's a VAM-38 with a strike anomaly to explain the tripled blossoms.

Too bad. No new 7/8 tailfeather vams have been found in many, many years. When I say that, I
don't count clashes which are technically die states not new obverse or reverses.

BIGDAVE · November 23, 2005 2:59AM

That is to diferent to be a strike anomaly ,I would understand a extra die scratch or somthing insignificant..
But A Triple Blossom That is Major ..
Well it is one of three things here.

1. It is a vam 38 and leroy left this out of the desciption (most likley)

2. a new discovery 38 A or B

3. It is a vam 44c

I dont get my hopes up any more

David

RobJoyce1921dVAMguy · November 23, 2005 4:17AM

Bigdave,
Here's my VAM-38

Obverse, doubled rib

Obverse cotton bolls

Reverse tailfeathers and arrow point to "blobby" that I use to pick out the reverse

Definitely not a VAM-44 reverse and the leaves don't match the VAM-44 so its not a V44 obverse die. Looks like my VAM-38 so I think it is option #1. Sorry.

Rob

BIGDAVE · November 23, 2005 5:17AM

Rob
Thats what mine looks like , i just dont understand why something so major would have been left out of the desciption

Vam 38 it is

Thank you all

David

Wolf359 · November 23, 2005 6:06AM

Good news is, Dave, you be able to tell a VAM-38 versus a 44 at a glance now. Could make you mucho
$$$ one day!

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