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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2673065, member: 1765&quot;]It looks like a small lamination.&nbsp; A strike-thru would have the detail on the leg missing, while a lamination would still show it, but with slightly diminished detail, after some of the metal had peeled off.</p><p><br /></p><p>Striking or planchet errors like this one don&#039;t have any bearing on which VAM the coin is.&nbsp; VAMs refer to observable variations in the dies.&nbsp; As has been mentioned earlier, all Morgan dollars are some VAM, the trick is figuring out which one.&nbsp; This trick is especially daunting with 1881-S due to how they were struck and how the dies aged.&nbsp; There are only a couple 1881-S VAMs worth any premium, and you can tell those without much magnification (VAMs 1B and 54B).&nbsp; If I were to attribute this, I&#039;d start with the mint mark.&nbsp; It looks a little high, and slightly tilted to the left.&nbsp; The date is the other place I&#039;d look, but the date on 81-S can be a mess from striking, and that can hide stuff in the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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