Morgan Dollar 1888, Near Slanted Date VAM?

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The 10MB limit is from the software used to automatically optimize the images when you upload them*. The optimizer reduces the file size to under 500KB to reduce the amount of storage used on the server because storage is not free. This keeps Bobby's costs down and our doors open.

There is no reason at all why you cannot reduce your image below 10MB before uploading it. Likes I said, crop the images to the areas of the coin used for attributions. When you save it, you should be able to reduce the file size then. The forum optimizer is going to reduce it anyway.



* Now, if someone wants to pay for something they feel like is better...

Excellent!

Not a bad idea.

We were all new once, so take your time and I will urge everyone else to be kind.

Looking at the last image I posted, now I can see why there might be a "gray area" where this could be a normal but "slanted" date.

I thought that I had seen doubling on the "R" in "PLURIBUS" which might have been indication of VAM-24. But now I see that although there is a small amount of doubling on the "R", there is actually much more pronounced doubling on the "I" and the "B":

What does this tell us?

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":

2. Full obverse:

3. Full reverse:


So is it VAM-32, or do I need to keep looking? I don't see the tripling in the hair, though...

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?

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.