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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave Waterstraat, post: 3187610, member: 75818&quot;]The first step in VAMming 1899-O is confirming the mint mark type. There were regular &quot;medium&quot; sized mint marks and small round mint marks known as &quot;micro o&quot;. Your example is a medium mint mark. The next step is the date position, measured in relationship of the tip of the bust to the left side of the base of the 1 measured against the denticles making yours a normal date position. Mint mark location is next with yours appearing to be set high and slightly left of center. Looking through the listings based on these diagnostics I came across VAM34A which appears to have the same crack patterns on the reverse but your example does not have the die break on the 3rd left star so I believe your Morgan to be a VAM-34 in the transition stage having the small die break on the letter T in UNITED. See attached link for die crack locations.<a href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1899-O_VAM-34A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1899-O_VAM-34A" rel="nofollow">http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1899-O_VAM-34A</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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