Need help identifying the VAM of this 1887-S Morgan

Jobessi

Manifest_Destiny

You can search through the 87-s reverses.

vamworld.com/wiki/1887-S_Reverses

Jobessi

@Manifest_Destiny said:
You can search through the 87-s reverses.

vamworld.com/wiki/1887-S_Reverses

Thank you! I've looked here and there's nothing like what I described.

cmerlo1

Minor die cracks like that are common on Morgan dollars and typically aren't the reason for a VAM designation. The VAM attribution on yours will likely be the date position, mintmark position or some other characteristic, with the die cracks possibly noted as a later die state or marker for the variety.

The die cracks have to progress to die breaks (blobs of metal) and/or displacement of the design around them to get their own VAM designation. If that's the case, your coin would be an early die state of the die break VAM. Check out this VAM as an example:

http://www.vamworld.com/wiki/1887-P_VAM-25A

Jobessi

@cmerlo1 said:
Minor die cracks like that are common on Morgan dollars and typically aren't the reason for a VAM designation. The VAM attribution on yours will likely be the date position, mintmark position or some other characteristic, with the die cracks possibly noted as a later die state or marker for the variety.

The die cracks have to progress to die breaks (blobs of metal) and/or displacement of the design around them to get their own VAM designation. If that's the case, your coin would be an early die state of the die break VAM. Check out this VAM as an example:

http://www.vamworld.com/wiki/1887-P_VAM-25A

Thank you! This was actually helpful.

cmerlo1

@Jobessi glad to help! Please consider changing the title back to the original one so others can lean from it also...

Jobessi

@cmerlo1 said:
@Jobessi glad to help! Please consider changing the title back to the original one so others can lean from it also...

Done

ifthevamzarockin

Looks like it might be a Vam 2A

LeeBone

Def looks like an S/S to me