Morgan Dollars - different kind of leafs...

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• JJM Posts: 8,090 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 28, 2008 5:36AM

  Intresting, Im sure someone will chime in on the Vam number, or maybe soft strikes ????????

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• clarkbar04 Posts: 5,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 28, 2008 6:00AM

  Hmm, what is the year and MM? Looks like the ones in the 1st pic have had the detail polished away.

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• Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭

  May 28, 2008 6:18AM

  As the mint workers polished the dies, detail would be lost. Sometimes, there would be gouges in the dies, sometimes file lines. These would be "die markers" used in identifying the die marriage that made the coin, commonly referred to as the VAM number. Over-polished leaves appear on a number of different VAMs. If you can post pics of the obverse and reverse, someone here should be able to put you on the right track to identify the VAM. Also, check out www.vamworld.com.

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• bigmansam88 Posts: 1,209

  May 28, 2008 6:19AM

  They were most likely polished away, as clarkbar04 stated.

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• lkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭

  May 28, 2008 7:26AM

  Good observation.....Morgan Die pairs are all different, or we wouldnt be able to classify them with their own VAM number.
  
  Although sometimes very slight, each pair has some sort of variance due to polishing, punching of mintmarks, hubbing, engraving, polishing, gouges, etc as mentioned.
  
  The 1921 coins are easily distinguished from the earlier Morgans, and you can see that with the naked eye. Some features are significantly different than the older coins.
  
  Good luck, it sounds like you are a Vammer and may not even know it yet

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• norwegianguy Posts: 184 ✭

  May 30, 2008 5:23PM

  Here is one example of each:
  
  1883O - polished leafs (?)
  
  
  
  
  
  1904O - complete leafs (?)
  
  
  

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• golfer72 Posts: 3,588

  May 30, 2008 10:01PM

  Wouldn't it be leaves?

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• norwegianguy Posts: 184 ✭

  May 30, 2008 10:53PM

  Yes, I think so... I'm not a native speaker. I wrote leaves first, but then I became unsure... Felt like I was writing that the Morgans were leaving...
  
  "Leafs" is not gramatically correct, but at least it cannot be misunderstood
  

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• BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,434 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 31, 2008 12:59AM

  
  
  << <i>Yes, I think so... I'm not a native speaker. I wrote leaves first, but then I became unsure... Felt like I was writing that the Morgans were leaving...
  
  "Leafs" is not gramatically correct, but at least it cannot be misunderstood >>
  
  
  
  Did you think we'd think that the leaves were leaving?

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