Need Help With 1887 Morgan

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same thing with the "8" including a die chip.

oooops....check around the "7" for any evidence of a "6"

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I've seen a number of Morgan dollars with a die chip on the left side of the 8.

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Yeah, given the size of the die and how hard they were worked, failure at each side of an 8 is a pretty common feature on Morgans. You'll find similar problems amidst "In God we trust" as well.

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Vamworld lists it as a VAM, but it does not list the die crack with it. Could it be a different VAM, or just too minor to list?

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If you can attribute it at VAMworld based on the major details they've published on it, you're probably right. In many cases, individual die cracks are too minor to be part of the attribution. For that matter, the coin first described to typify the VAM might have been minted before the die cracked. They can be indicative of die state - how far into the die's life that particular coin was minted - and in some cases when the cracks become bad enough to be breaks they can achieve VAM designation on their own.

So which VAM is it?