1879-O VAM-4
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1879-O VAM-4 O/Horizontal O Mint mark Discovered by A.G. Heins, April 1967. This coin is a Top 100 Morgan VAM. '''4'''(revised) '''III2 4 • C3c (O/O Horizontal, Doubled 9 and Left Reverse) (176) ''' '''Obverse III2 4 –''' Upper loop of 9 in date strongly doubled on left outside. '''Reverse C3c –''' Medium II O centered mint mark over horizontal O with horizontal bars at top and bottom inside. Possibly triple O with first two punches high and low. Hub doubling of left reverse same as 1878 P C3b reverse with doubling of UNITED STATES bottom inside (strong doubling on inside of U), I of In at top, top right edge of eagle’s right wing and left edge of some leaves in left wreath. ;Emission Sequence :Obverse: :Reverse: '''Comments:''' # This exact reverse die was used to produce [[1879-O VAM-4 and [[1879-O VAM-28. # Note this article originally appeared in VAMview Magazine _ by Rob Joyce. ''In 1879, the New Orleans mint struck Morgan dollars with an unusual mintmark feature, making this particular coin highly desirable and collectable today. The working dies used to create these dollars had the mintmarks hand stamped into them before the final hardening process. This manual creation process led to the formation of many interesting varieties. Some Morgans have their mintmarks set high. Other mintmarks are set low or tilted. In the instance of this 1879-O variety, the mintmark was punched over another version of the mintmark creating an interesting underlying marker [Figure 1].'' # Early die stage examples don't have the die chip under the flag of the 1 or the crack above the date.