Just a quick question. I have a coin that has two die breaks, both are listed separately as die break vam's so do I have a coin with two vams or ???? HELP!
By definition there is only one VAM number per coin. Here's a great site for everything VAM. http://www.vamworld.com/ Their link to the Morgan VAMs by date: http://www.vamworld.com/Morgan+VAMs+By+Date (click on the mint for a given date) You didn't specify Morgan or Peace dollar, but this site also has listings for Peace dollars.
Your coins may have been struck with different dies. The die with cracks used with different dies on other side. Hope that makes sense. Here's what they say; "Silver dollars are created by striking metal blanks with hardened dies containing the mirror image of the desired pattern. Through careful study, slight differences can be used to identify specific dies that created the coins. Sometimes these differences occur during the creation of the dies, while other times they are caused by the maintenance or use of the dies."
