1887 Morgan Dollar no mint mark weird arrow on reverse.

Ages ago when I recieved a 1887 morgan silver dollar as a christmas present. I recently took a look at it and when I took a picture of it I thought the top arrow looked a bit off to me. I recall seeing photos of other morgans and didnt see that.

Is this possibly an error?

 

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I am thinking damage. There appears to be scrapes in the field beyond the arrowhead tips.

 

PMD to the arrow.

 

Why does the top right arrow have part of it on top of the center or second arrow then? Thats what I dont understand. It's almost like a line sitting on top of the second arrow.

 

I checked through the 87 VAMs didn't find anything even close. so is either PMD or possibly an undocumented die chip but that's unlikely IMHO...

 

Looks like the "top" arrow took a hit and some of the metal has moved on top of the next arrow. Like others have said, PMD.

 

Agree with the PMD, but it does look like a Near Date, maybe a VAM 14? Does the date have any doubling? Looks like the VAM 14 has several die marriages.
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Looks like that arrow was hit by something strong enough to move silver.

 

It does looked dented. But cool Morgan

 

What about these pictures of the date on the front??

 

They are on the obverse of the coin.

 

It's from the die, nothing hit that.

 

Maybe a retained lamination.

 

Why do you say that?

 

I can't think of anything that would leave that mark. It looks like a defect on the die.

 

I think it needs examined under at least 30x.

 

Does it still look blurry?

 

PMD

 

The last picture looks even more like a hit that moved metal around.
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