In another thread today, I mentioned that coining operations officially ceased at the Carson City mint in 1899. And that in August of that year, they shipped out 22 tons worth of the last remaining CC silver dollars that were there. 'Some' of which went to New Orleans. So we have the 1900 O/CC variety. Does anyone know what happened to these when they got there? Were they melted? Did they just get an "O" stamped over the CC mintmark? Which in that case, does that mean Carson City had already produced 1900 Morgans? Or was it that they simply used the Carson City dies for a while and had to put an O over the CC on the dies? It says New Orleans minted 12,590,000 Morgans in 1900. Does anybody have any idea what the approximate population of O/CC's were made? They're just included in the overall mintage. I guess I'm wondering how rare are they? Here. If I had photoshop I'd replace the bat with Conder. Where are you. We need you.
The CC dollars didn't go and get restruck with O dies, The left over CC dies went to New Orleans and were struck over with the O mintmark die. You can go to www.vamworld.com and add up the numbers estimated by their R(arity) number.
Thanks for that link. Very informative. I bookmarked it. In case anyone finds this thread someday and wonders what the approx. population is, this is what I came up with and how I came up with it. As of 5/24/09, they show 8 known VAMs. Most are pretty rare, all being between R-4 to R-7 on the rarity scale. VAM7 = R7 (Few Tens) So I said approx. 50 VAM7a= R7 (Few Tens) 50 VAM8 = R4/R5 (So I figured high end) 10,000 VAM8a= R6 (Several hundred) 300 VAM9 = R7 (Few Tens) 50 VAM10= R4/R5 10,000 VAM11= R4 50,000 VAM12= R4/R5 10,000 -------- Total: 80,450 approximately Assuming that's all there were and all varieties have been found, that would be approximately the maximum of all O/CC's that ever 'existed'. Not necessarily what remains today. Which, one could argue maybe 20-30% (maybe much more) were melted for Peace dollars with the rest, shipped over seas and/or lost over time. It's possible there could be less than 50k in existence today. That was the info I was looking for. I just wanted to know if the figure would be in the hundreds of thousands, or millions. Most likely, there were less than 100k ever produced and maybe 50k remain today. Which means this could be an overlooked series. Especially the rarer VAMs. I've got a new coin added to my list.
Breen states there were 6 working reverse dies that were sent to Philadelphia and were remintmarked for the New Orleans mint. Current combined POP figures indicate There are a total of 6,729 in all grades PCGS & NGC for this VAM. The majority in lower grades , 2,469 in MS64 , roughly a 1,000 pieces in combined in higher grades , the bulk of which 65's with only a handful above 65. Most likely sent to some Wall Street Investors.
