1879-cc/cc Morgan Dollar Vam-3 Top 100 WOW! Near Top Pop! $1 ms64+ SEGS

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1879-cc/cc Vam-3 Top 100 WOW! Near Top Pop! Morgan Dollar $1 ms64+ SEGS. The VAM-3 variety, dubbed the "Capped Die" by VAM specialists, is among the most famous of the Top 100 Morgan dollar VAMs. It is also the only 1879-CC variety on the Top 100 VAM list. The key diagnostic is a cluster of tiny die chips around the Large CC mintmark on the reverse, which at one point in the distant past was thought to be just die rust. However, students of the series have, since the 1960s, attributed these die chips to an engraver's attempt to efface evidence of a repunched mintmark, in the case of VAM-3, a Large Over Small CC repunched mintmark. In the September 1965 issue of Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine, Leroy Van Allen commented on this discovery: "Some articles in the past have said the capped CC was due to a rusted die. However, I doubt that it was due to a rusted die since no other defects exist except for the filled G on some coins. The rough surface around the CC was probably due to attempts to obliterate the small mint mark. The tops of the small mint mark looks like it appears just above the large mint mark. ... Since 1879 was the first year large size mint marks were used, what probably happened was that an older 1878 reverse die was modified."The popularity of this variety has grown out of the extensive study and debate that it has generated over the years. Today, it is known to be marginally scarcer than coins from Normal Mintmark die pairs, although not quite as elusive as the 2 to 1 ratio that Van Allen suggested in 1965. Mint State coins in the lower of these grades frequently appear at auction, even while they are scarce on the bourse floor and missing from many Morgan dollar collections. However, in Choice condition the Capped Die variety is challenging to acquire. Collector demand causes this. Gem examples of the issue are so rare -- not only in the context of Morgan dollars but in an absolute sense -- that a moderate supply of MS64 coins on the market is quickly dried up by Registry collectors and other series specialists.Offered here is a truly magnificent coin A Key Date's Pick, Bid to Win, Don't let it get Away, you might not find its equal Coin. I give this coin my highest recommendation

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1879-cc/cc Morgan Dollar Vam-3 Top 100 WOW! Near Top Pop! $1 ms64+ SEGS
1879-cc/cc Morgan Dollar Vam-3 Top 100 WOW! Near Top Pop! $1 ms64+ SEGS
Lot number: 11929
Seller: Key Date Coins
Event: SALE! Memorial Day Savings! Rare Coin Auction 20MA
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