VAM's?

Oh My! the book you are referring to is the Encyclopedia of Morgan and Peace dollars by Leroy van Allen and George a Mallis and even though this is a great book it is still just a starting point and not even the authors themselves probably know each and every VAM just by looking at a coin. In my case I chose 1878 Morgans to study and just for 1878-P Morgans there are over 200 VAM numbers assigned with more being found all the time and this isn't including the 7/8Tf or the 8TF 1878 Morgans so as you could guess this is a very big book and unless you have a photographic memory it would be hard to even remember one date or even the major ones not to mantion each and every VAM there is. Another place that is a good place to go is VAMworld on the net and they have allot of the VAM's listed and show attributes of those specific VAM's on their site