1900 Morgan Dollar - VAM-24

Description

1900-P VAM-24 Doubled Arrows, Quintupled Obverse Stars Discovered by John Baumgart, May 1997. This coin is a Top 100 Morgan VAM. 24 III2 19 C4/C3a (Doubled Eagle, Quintupled Stars) (189) Obverse III2 19 - All right stars and 1 and 2 left stars very slightly quintupled towards rim. Rest of left stars doubled and tripled as are tops of NUM. Reverse C4/C3a- Extra olive to right of olive connected to branch. Doubling of olive leaves in top cluster and first two leaves in the lower cluster, bottom of arrow feathers, shaft and arrow heads, first four tail feather ends, feathers on lower part of eagle's right wing, all of eagle's left wing, eagle's nostril and eye, bottom of top leaves on right wreath and right side of GOD WE-TRU. Notes: 1900-P VAM-24 Doubled Arrows, quintupled obverse stars. This variety was discovered after the publication of the Top 100 VAM book. The 1900-P VAM-11 Doubled Arrows reverse was featured but a sharp-eyed collector noticed some of the coins had a different obverse with quintupled stars showing small shelf-like lines toward the rims. There is a die scratch in front of the eye on 1900-P VAM-11, the 1900-P VAM-24 has an "alligator eye". 1900-P VAM-24 represents the earlier die stage of this reverse.

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