1884-P Possible VAM-9c

I just noticed another clash as well next to the other wreath. This one was very hard to photograph, but fairly obvious to the eye under 10x magnification. It would appear that this one corresponds to a clash just below the lips on the front. The other unknown clash on the opposite side seems to correspond to the cap vee, but I am not sure.

What you're seeing is clashing in the "expected" areas - the one next to the right wreath which you mentioned not finding anything about is what one would expect to be the very first location to see clashing. Oftimes, it's the only place one sees a reverse clash on a Morgan. If clashing appears elsewhere on the reverse, it can be pretty much assumed a clash will show there.

Your coin is definitely not 8B. The neck and n clashes are in the wrong place, and the cracks around the date rule it out. Those cracks also rule out 8D. Unfortunately - as messydesk mentions - there's not enough public information regarding 8C to confirm one way or another. And the 8A description shows a coin which might be one of the other sub-VAMs. And then there's E through H, some of which might be intermediate stages of other VAMs....you could even have what's technically a VAM-8 from a die pair previously unknown to VAMming.

Yours is a heavily-clashed coin, doubled as messydesk mentioned, and these images do a pretty good job of defining whatever VAM/stage it is. But VAM-8 alone could be the work of years for a single researcher, finding and recording specific die pairs, without ever being "definitive" of the VAM. At a reasonable production rate per die, one can expect that at least 50 and probably more individual die pairs were used in 1884-P production - not counting alternate pairings of existing dies - and with only 25 VAMs numbered for the date you can see how very little we actually know about 1884 as of this day.

VAMming is pretty much the poster child for sometimes.

Even if it is - I looked and thought not - V2 and V11 crack in different locations than this one.

You could post your photos on the VAMworld message board to see if some one recognizes the pups on your Morgan. That die crack on the obverse that extends into the neck area is out of the ordinary and the crack through the date should be like a finger print. I actually stopped at VAM-20 to take a second and third look, it's very close but doesn't appear to be an exact match. Or, you could send the coin to messydesk, aka John Baumgart, at Variety Slabbing Service to attribute your coin. John is one of the VAM gurus over at VAMworld.

Yes, already noted. I read his response the day it was posted. I was really responding to this part of his reply
thinking that the coin in hand my be what is needed to identify the die pairing.

There seems to be several clashed n VAMs with few photos on the pages. A good die marker needs to be found for all of them to straighten them out.