Suprise I Need Help Again!!!!

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Originally posted by Bryan1315
I was wondering how common is it for someone to find this many VAM's in one collection with just one of each date/mintmark and only about 40% complete of the date/mint marks of the morgans?

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You have to look at VAM's as die states or variations, rather than as errors. Every Morgan is a VAM. The size and complexity of the coin really stretched the limits of minting technology of the day, and combined with some enormous mintage numbers, mistakes and variations are completely understandable. Dies were worked on during the course of their use, sometimes by people who weren't exactly artists.

My point is, no it's not hard to believe that you've found so many identifiable VAM's. There's an enormous body of information available to attribute them, and a VAM number can be assigned to each and every single coin.

Of course, you do seem to be getting more than your share of "cool" ones.

I would call the coin in question a VAM 36. I think what you're seeing as doubling is, in fact, the die chips mentioned in the official description. However, I'm hardly a '78 expert - my specialty is '21's.

I just wanted to say that I think we mis-attributed this coin, I am quite positive it is a VAM-37 instead of a VAM-36. To be fair, it is my fault for the mis-attribution because I didnt show the obverse characteristics. Here they are and as you can see there are "bulges" on the "E" and "P" and the "B" is doubled at right inside and bottom of lower loop as described for the VAM-37, the reverse is the same for the 36 and 37 so it was an easy mistake, I just wanted to let everyone know about this mistake