I am having a REALLY hard time finding a match for my 1880-S Morgan. Only a couple crappy pictures, but here is a detailed description. Obverse - Normal date placement. Profiles seems slightly doubled, with a little metal displacement on the chin near the lips, and a little metal displacement on the bottom lip. Outside of the whole phrygian cap slightly doubled along with some of the hair in the back (on the outside). 2 diagonal die scratches in the ear. ** Most importantly ** The cotton bolls and some of the leaves (the 2 below the bolls) are very easily tripled, possibly quadrupled or quintupled. The stars on the right appear tripled to quadrupled or quintupled. It appears to be similar to http://www.vamworld.com/1880-S+VAM-92 because the Reverse is distinct: Reverse C3b – Normal die of C3 type with very large centered and upright VI S mint mark. Die gouge above L in DOLLAR. It has the die gouge above L in DOLLAR. Large centered mintmark. The thing I can't figure out is the cotton bolls and lower leaves. It doesn't match any vam out there. I can see quadrupling if not quintupling. Does anyone have any ideas? I have a couple photos from my phone, but I know they're not good. From the description alone, does it match or ring a bell with anyone (namely the cotton boll characteristics)? Thanks in advance, Spencer I'll try and get some more detailed pictures and get this onto the vamworld forum.
Sorry, but it is impossible to give you a definitive answer from those photos. Any time you take photos at an angle, it distorts the images. We would need good close-ups for all of the pertinent areas taken from directly overhead (including any markers noted in the VAMWorld listing, if any). Chris
