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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5391027, member: 105098&quot;]gonna need full image of obverse and reverse for starters to help you, then from there we can get into close ups beyond that.</p><p>Here&#039;s VAMworld page:</p><p><a href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1899-O_VAMs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1899-O_VAMs" rel="nofollow">http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1899-O_VAMs</a></p><p><br /></p><p>VAM isn&#039;t necessarily doubling, it can be position of the date or mintmark, or die gouges or die breaks, or die chips ect, anything on a coin/die that can identify a specific die pair used for the coins strike really, Yes a doubled die can be a VAM, but it doesn&#039;t have to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>it also can be not a VAM and nothing giving it uniqueness to identify the die pair, or an unattributed as of yet VAM.</p><p><br /></p><p>You don&#039;t have a picture of the star to the right of the last 9 of the date here, but your &quot;99&quot; picture looks right for VAM-41, I&#039;d need to see the star to the right of the date to go any further which is why the picture of the front and back of the coin is important as close and as big as you can while still getting the whole coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>between the two pictures of the date, the one with the 19 and then the one with the 99,&nbsp; it appears as the 1 is closer to the denticles than the 9 is in the other picture, suggesting it&#039;s slanted date, if that&#039;s the case, then that&#039;s another check mark for VAM-41.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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