1883 Morgan Grade And Is Die Break VAM 10 Thank You

Die crack is not_quite VAM-10's. As you know, die cracks are as unique as fingerprints and the match has to be prefect. What it is, is VAM-4:

http://www.vamworld.com/1883-P+VAM-4

The doubling on the 8-3 is a dead giveaway, the crack is a match and the neck clash over the wing is in the appropriate - quite different from "normal" - position. I have this one at probably 63.

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Your coin does appear to be a VAM 4 and is a very interesting variety. When you do an attribution forget about die cracks at first until you have looked at date position, doubling of the date and letters, die clashes and the position of the clash marks, etc.. before trying to match up the die cracks because many dies have cracks in similar position the same thing happens with clash marks but that is why I put them at the back of the list. There are other things to look for like die gouges, die polishing lines, and other diagnostics on many of the pages to help make sure you have identified the VAM correctly.

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Kris

This one is probably worth $75-$100 but it might take some time to find a buyer at those prices. If it were put on ebay auction it could bring anywhere from $40 to $75 in my opinion and it just takes 2 interested buyers.

By the way, VAMs are not 1 off's, a VAM is a pair of dies that have attributes that are cataloged as VAMs. So there could be hundreds or thousands of each VAM if not more or less in some cases. http://www.vamworld.com has all the info you need to learn about them and pricing info is available at the bottom of the pages in some cases. If you have never attributed a VAM before then I would read this http://www.vamworld.com/Attribution+101 If there is any of it that is hard to understand just skip by it and keep reading. The date position chart explains how to tell if you have a near, normal or far date. There is also information about clashing and lots of other good info on that page. It takes a long time to learn it all but most can attribute a coin just from learning the basics like date position, clashing, doubled dies, etc..