1878 CC Vam question: vam 26 "Doubled P" rarity factor?

BobaFett72

Just curious... how common is this vam. Doubled P in Pluribus.

Coxe

Hard to say. Leroy put it at R-5 in the update. However, it shares the B2d reverse with only VAM-10. The obverse is differentiated easily as the one on VAM-10 has the broken right star four, a notorious hub defect. It is in the VAM book as the II3 obverse, shared by several other VAMs. More likely (to me), more than one used obverse die was created with that working hub and undifferentiated thusfar. Has anyone really looked at a lot of VAM-10 dollars of this date and confirmed the broken star? Probably not. Some number of them may be VAM-26. A samll fraction or a larger one? Leroy reasons these things out. Maybe consideration was made of the likelihood the doubling was discovered and the die discarded early in its scheduled service. Maybe the relative intermediate die wear on the reverse between the two? A good question for this and many opther VAMs.