Best Morgan VAM Books to own?

nepbrs44

Starting to get more into the Morgan's and I wanted to tap into the great and vast experience of this forum! Thanks in advance for your help.

Bill.

DennisH

There are dozens of VAM attribution books, including many that focus on a single date. How well they work varies greatly.
My recommendation is to start with these two. I think they're the template for how all others should be done.

MGLICKER

Van Allen and Mallis.

They put the VA-M in VAM.

messydesk

The two that Dennis recommends are both good, and there are many others for specific dates. There are also the "list" books, including the Top 100, Hot 50, and Hit List 40. These lists are all defined as PCGS registry sets as well.

The VAM book itself, while not up to date, is highly recommended. In addition to pictures of everything up to 1992, it has a ton of good background information on both Morgan and Peace dollars. There are annual supplements to this book that keep it up to date.

Another good one is "Wonders of Morgan Dollars", self published by Leroy Van Allen. This is a sort of guide to a Morgan dollar variety type set. It explains how many of them came to be and shows good examples of each type, although it's not an attribution guide in and of itself.

AUandAG

By all means if you have not yet bookmarked "vamworld.com" do so now.

bob

Rampage

I've got both that Dennis pictures, as well as several others for VAMs.

TwoSides2aCoin

I call Larry E. He's a walking book … and loves VAMs

johnny9434

ill have to check on either book. i need a new one

nepbrs44

Thanks all for the GREAT info. I ordered the books suggested. Many thanks. Looks like I'll be very busy reading over the Holidays. What a nice problem to have.