Top 100, 1878-P VAM-115 Tripled Blossoms

I'm certainly not an expert, more of an enthusiast, but I believe you are correct. Nice variety.

Yeah...me too! That would make it a Vam44,R7! The Reverse was the first thing I looked at so I did not have to endure the rapid beating heart if I looked for it last.
Still not a bad find,I believe it's a R-6.....a keeper.

Both the VAM 38 and the vam44/4a have the long nock, which yours does not, a quick pick up point for the VAM 38 is the doubled and slightly missing nostril, the VAM 115 has a solid nostril area and the Unique engraved feathers on the reverse, which actually look like its missing.
All 4 share the triple blossom ..But the VAM 115 I believe shares with the reverse die of VAM 198..
yours is a VAM 115....

your welcome dave! and indeed! the 78 series is the foundation of vamming...How I remembered that is astounding LOL....
These all occur do to die pair displacement.....for most of you who know, and for those who do not...with the millions of coins that were to be produced, and a set number of coin presses....and an assumption
of how many coins each die would produce before failure.....
\ THEY DID THERE MATH.....Do to historical need for cash in hand for the public, The amount the mint needed to produce was unlike any
proportion ever needed before.....this is why many states had there own banking currency.....in the mid 1850's and many a "Californian"
did not have US made coins yet they had the gold and made there own currency just as the Banks did to supply the barter system with some kind of "LOCAL" currency.....Personally I believe this came into play do to Europe "LONG HAS USED " "credit"...
IOU's......17th century and perhaps before..but for now lets get back into the US Morgan thing....CASH HAND, US MADE"....came into law to solidify the US currency or lest it befall to "Spanish or who ever"...There only PROBLEM was to increase the number of coins per year to meet the Publics need of cash in pocket to over ride t6he use of foreign coins used as trade in place of missing US Currency.....
So the problem was now they needed to produce 10 times the coins sthey usually produced and also this was a new die design which new designed coins always have a multitude of press issues....
the errors as we find them today are formed from
the making of the dies.....which 1878 was a great learning experiment or should I say a great experience.... There are abundant doubling, trippling and per say for the 1879-s as many as 9 layering's, we so call doubling of a sort...
one thing I will say, as you D..I found early in vamming the attributes of the VAM 38.....Maybe its the photo's given?
honestly the VAM 38 looks doubled compared to the OBVIOUS tripping of VAM 44 and 115.....hands down...I really have to look for the tripling..
ALL in all its a great VAM from a year of minting from where all the errors "invaded our world" OVER 230 errors for this year alone!......."THE BEST year to investigate to understand where and how it all began and were we are now"!!
Hope I didn't bore you all.....G

Very Informative! I would know nothing about VAM's had I not joined CCF back in October and I learn a little more each day

Thanks guy's.. there is a lot of info that details why such errors occurred during these years, VAM Worlds VAM "101" is a very important read to understand, what is considered normal,. and not....these points are known as errors listed as vams....