Latest Pickup - 1900-O Morgan Beauty

Nice find.

Schizophrenic VAM collection? Lol. Please elaborate.

I was using that term to describe my disordered way of building the grouping. It's almost like my early days of collecting where I just wanted everything that looked cool. I have learned to focus in the other parts of the collection, but these VAMs are so intriguing I leap before I look sometimes. I've scored some cool cherry picks but also ended up with a pig in a poke at other times. I've chased something really cool and have gotten into bidding wars that (thankfully) I was priced out of before ending.

I think it is time to step back and focus in this area, too. I don't plan to build a VAM set, but there are some varieties that are too cool for me to pass up.




Me, too. I've heard that most of these were actually produced in silver, sometimes at higher purity than the Mint versions - do you find that to be the case?

Yours looks like a micro O tilted right, and also has the die scratches between U and M, as well as the very near date.

1900-O VAM-5 Small Micro O Tilted Far Right, Very Near Date, Doubled Obverse.

Nice find, congrats.