"oly" wrote in message
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VAM is phony baloney. Psuedo-science. A mountain from a molehill.
False scholar****.

In the 1880s and 1890s the U.S. Mint had to wade through mountains of
silver every month. They made 1000s of dies. It had to be hectic, a
crazy time.

The flaws, the minor errors, mean nothing. They don't tell us ****
about the era that they were produced in, they don't tell us anything
about the minting process. Little flaws, nicks in the dies from where
they were dropped, tools hit the die faces, die clashes, big whoopee.

A 1955 double die cent would be a great thing to find for zero and sell
for a lot; but I'd never buy one.

oly

oly


A similar situation exists with the UK bronze coinage of Queen Victoria,
"Freeman" has gazillions of varieties identified and some collectors life
ambition is to have as many of them in their collection as possible,
sometimes paying a lot for a coin identical to millions of others but for
some very minor difference.

I have no desire to spend my life examine coins with a magnifying glass but
there are many that do that, are they crazy? Probably, but if they want to
do it and they have fun then why not. Billy