1889 P Morgan ..... Don"T VAM It.

Every single Morgan is a VAM. Every single Morgan, like every single Lincoln, is a die variety of one sort or another. We don't know all of the Morgan varieties yet, and will certainly never know all of the Lincoln varieties. We may never succeed in identifying all Morgan die pairs.

This is a much more common practice with older US coinage than newer. Pretty much everything before Seated coinage has been conclusively attributed by die pair, and knowing the variety is part of collecting them.

Like all issues, some varieties are rarer than others. Some are in more demand. Either will cause the price for one to be higher than a more common or uninteresting variety.

the clash marks you are showing on the Reverse is pretty common on allot of different Morgans and will probably not be mentioned in the VAM attributes. You will have to look for doubling, die chips, die gouges or something to that effect to look for in the attributes to be able to start narrowing the specific VAM down. Most clashing isn't listed unless there is a letter transfer but this isn't always the case. The areas you are showing is just so common if it were mentioned it would have every new VAMer pulling their hair out trying to learn what VAM is what. Some VAM's add value and some doesn't add any value to the host coin, its just how much demand there is for that specific VAM. That is why allot of bigger dealers do not even try to VAM a Morgan because they feel its not worth their time once they VAM each coin they have they have allot of time invested and most will not add much if any value at all. They just figure that time could be used for something to make more money instead of trying to attribute each coin that they get into their inventory. These are the dealers I love to buy from but its because I know what VAM's I like when I see it and I don't have to buy their whole inventory to get it