I purchased this in late January but never posted it. There are several Die varieties for this and I believe my is one of the common ones. Enjoy!
I think I have one of the varieties too. I never could definitively say it was an O/S. Cool find though.
Just look at the O mintmark. You should see a small line running from left to right in the middle of the O.
Love this variety. Here is mine: It’s the VAM4. http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1882-O_VAM-4
The writeup on NGC is fun: In 1882, the New Orleans Mint struck just over six million Morgan dollars. At the time, all dies were made at the Philadelphia Mint, where the mint marks were also placed on the dies. This created the opportunity for varieties to occur, and occur they did this year. It seems that three dies originally prepared with the "S" mint mark of San Francisco has the "O" mint mark for New Orleans placed on top of the "S." This created three very popular varieties that are highly sought after today! Many examples of this date were found in the treasury releases of the mid 20th century. However, few uncirculated examples of the O over S varieties have been found. In fact, these varieties are often found on lower-grade coins, which points to the conclusion that most of the O/S coins were released into circulation soon after striking. Playing with inserting a pic rather than image hosting:
I new what you meant!! Did you cherry pick it or bought it knowing it was an over mm? edit to change date to mm!lol
I bought it knowing it was an overdate. It didn't cost me an arm and a leg. In fact, it didn't cost me either. It was fairly inexpensive to say the least.
