1883-O Morgan with a ERROR on the Mint ?

Ok i am going through some Coins and came across a 1883-O Morgan Silver Dollar .The Mint strike "O" seems to have a knotch on the right side of the "O" .i used my 18x minimag and it looks like when it stamped the Mint mark that it made additional mark to the right middle of the "O" ..My questions is .Is there such a Morgan listed with this type of error ? or could this just be?..Thank you

 

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Can you post pics? Hard to say without them.

 

We'd need close-ups, but it might be a repunched mintmark (O/O). It's called a VAM on Morgan & Peace dollars. It's an acronym for the authors of the book on these dollar varieties, Leroy Van Allen & A. George Mallis.

You can look through the listings at VAMWorld and compare yours with the photos of the "O/O" mintmarks.

http://www.vamworld.com/1883-O+VAMs

Chris

 

Yes Chris thank you after i checked i beleive its the 1883-O VAM-4 O Over O...Thanks again

 

I just happen to have an 1883 O/O in an NGC MS64 slab, and this is what it should look like. Note that in addition to the RPM, there is also a small die gouge, inside left of the mintmark.

Chris

PS. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge it.

 

Sorry, I'm not seeing a "notch" off to the right of that mintmark.

 

Notch? The VAM listing says nothing about a notch to the right of the mintmark.

Chris

 

looks like an o over o. could be a number of vams.