1899-S - VAM-9?

I cant really see the pictures of the coin enough to actually see the attributions enough to accurately attribute the coin, is there a way to crop the picture to where it just focuses on the coin without all the white background (that may get the picture big enough to attribute the coin). I looked in the book at the attributions of the VAM-9 and it is kind of vague to say the least and there is nothing to add to your description than what you have already said in your post, it just describes it as normal obverse with closed 9's and on the reverse has a centered S mint mark centered and tilted right. So either you can look at your coin through a loupe (if you can not enlarge the pictures) and see if it matches the description or you can try and enlarge the pictures in some kind of way and maybe we will be able to see enough detail to attribute it for you, but if it has closed 9's and if the "S" looks to be tilted a little to the right then chances are that it is attributed correctly, but if it has open "9's" then it isn't. Sorry I can be of no more help but it is just impossible to do with the pictures provided

with VAM's its strange, there are some that are very sought after and can bring quite a bit of a premium and then they are others that do not add to the value at all. There are thousands of different VAM's and some are just not collected, it just about has to be a TOP100 or HOT50 coin to really see a nice premium. Some others do command a premium but its because there are more collectors of the series then they are coins to go around, the famous 1921 VAM-1X comes to mind (that SuperDave made famous on this forum) there are only 2 or 3 known to exist and chances of there being more are very slim so when you have a thousand people collecting 1921 VAM's and one specific VAM that there is only 2 known to exist, that particular VAM can pretty much set its own price. From the pictures you provided it does look like it has closed 9's and it kind of does look like the S is tilted so I will agree with the VAM-9 attribution from the pictures, and since the VAM-9 isn't a TOP100 or HOT50 VAM and since there isn't really a following for that specific VAM I doubt you would see any price increase from it

Wait a minute - there's only one VAM-1X, and I don't own it. I don't understand how anyone got the impression that I do.