1900-S VAM-6

Description

Oscar Simpson's January 1977 discovery, revised in the VAM catalog, VAM-6 documents a Near Date on the 1900 San Francisco Morgan Dollar under classification III2 2 - C3d (189). The date is positioned notably close to the rim — comments emphasize "very near" placement that approaches but does not quite reach the "Very Far Date" classification threshold, placing this variety at the boundary between two positional categories where precise measurement determines attribution. The obverse emission sequence connects VAM-6 with VAMs 17, 6A, and 6B, establishing a die linkage chain that maps the obverse die's progression through multiple reverse pairings during the 1900-S production run. San Francisco struck 3,540,000 Morgan Dollars in 1900, a relatively low mintage that places this date among the scarcer S-mint issues of the turn-of-the-century period. Additional comments note that the mintmark sits slightly high, though this characteristic is not mentioned in the official VAM description — an observation from the collector community that supplements the formal attribution. The C3d reverse designation identifies a specific reverse die type within the classification framework. Simpson's original 1977 attribution established the near-date feature as the primary diagnostic nearly five decades ago, and the variety has undergone catalog revision since, refining the obverse die classification to III2 2 and adding emission sequence data that enriches understanding of San Francisco's 1900 die pairing logistics.

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