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Morgan Dollar 1888, Near Slanted Date VAM?

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The closeup images are really good. Hopefully the VAM experts can offer an opinion.
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Thanks to @-makecents- ... I kept hunting and came across an entry in John Robert's list "A dozen VAMs for 2020":

1888-P VAM-32 tripled obverse, all but unknown:

https://vamworld.com/wiki/1888-P_VAM-32

I'm now thinking this must be it ... unfortunately, there is no image of the date in that page, but merely states that it is "within normal parameters".

Here are some more images: first, a detail of the "LIBERTY" letters which shows two little die gouges (?) within the recessed areas of the "T" and the "Y", as well as the same doubling on "RIB" that I already showed previously; second, full images (not resized) of the obverse and reverse.

I have to get in closer with the Nikon D60 to get good close-ups, so the detail shown in the other images probably won't be clear due to the camera's lack kof resolution if I want to get the full coin all at once.

1. Doubling on "RIB" and die gouges in "LIBERTY":
Morgan-Dollar-1888,-Near-Slanted-Date-VAM?
2. Full obverse:
Morgan-Dollar-1888,-Near-Slanted-Date-VAM?
3. Full reverse:
Morgan-Dollar-1888,-Near-Slanted-Date-VAM?

So is it VAM-32, or do I need to keep looking? I don't see the tripling in the hair, though...
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Could be VAM-32. There are so many with date positioning similar to yours that are considered "normal dates". I think if you would have lighting coming from the center of the coin, pointing back towards the rim, it may show the tripling on the hair if it's there. I did a comp pic of your date and VAM-32, it looks pretty good but yours almost looks higher, see what you think.

Many of the listings have doubling on the reverse. I assume you have not seen anything notable on the reverse?




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Thanks @-makecents- for looking!

I saw that there was an image of the full coin on the VAM site later; obviously, this does include the date. However, that image is only about 600 px square, but that shouldn't prevent the correct date attribution. However, I didn't look at it that closely, either.

I see what you mean about the date on my coin being higher. Actually, I still think the date on my coin is borderline "near slanted date", but depending on the andle of lighting, one's interpretation of exactly where the date starts relative to the denticles can vary a little!

There's always the possibility of a new die attribution, but I'm not counting on it. Especially since the doubling on PLURIBUS matches very closely what I am seeing on my coin.

Any thoughts on the little die gouges in LIBERTY?
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As to the reverse, I only saw that it did not fit any of the descriptions of the varieties which were considered "near slanted dates", so I have beed concentrating on the obverse. No doubling, and no die gouges on the reverse that I can see right now.
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