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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4943958, member: 105098&quot;]A VAM is a Peace, or Morgan silver dollar die variety that has been identified in a book called <i>The Comprehensive Catalog and Encyclopedia of Morgan and Peace Dollars</i> by Leroy C. Van Allen and A. George Mallis. The term VAM comes from the first initials of Van Allen&#039;s and Mallis&#039; last names. These two researchers noticed differences between coins produced in the same year and at the same mint. They began to photograph and catalog these differences to identify the different die varieties in the Morgan and Peace silver dollar series.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as an online source, VAM world 2.0 wiki is a good online source of info.</p><p><a href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/Home" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/Home" rel="nofollow">http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/Home</a></p><p><br /></p><p>that one you&#039;ll find as 1878-P VAM-164, the B2c is just the reverse die ID for the broken R in Trust that looks like &quot;Tiust&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>All identifiers on the coin must match obverse, and reverse really for positive identification or you might just have half of the VAM and mix it up with other varieties. since the VAM is for a specific die pair with it&#039;s own characteristics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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