What Is A Value Added VAM?

This is nothing which is not true about all of numismatics. We swim in shark-infested waters, regardless of our concentration.

when I first started collecting I just bought up any and all uncirculated Morgans I could find. I was actually working on a complete set of Morgans by date and mint mark. At that time I wasn't a member of any coin forums and don't think I even knew they even existed. By the time I almost had my Morgan collection completed I found a coin which had the term VAM on the label (was a 1878 VAM-84 graded by NGC) and I started searching what it meant. It was around that time I found this coin forum and started asking questions and even bought the encyclopedia. I found that I had some pretty nice VAM's in my collection without even knowing it but at that time VAM collecting and was something very few people actually did and I think there were only about 35 VAM's PCGS even attributed (out of those 35 I had 6). Now times have changed and it seems like everyone and their brother looks through ebay and every other auction site looking for VAM's and when a popular one comes to auction there is so much interest the price goes up allot, but when I first started VAM collecting you could even get coins in the R-6 range for a couple bucks over starting bid