1900-O/CC $1 Morgan Silver Dollar, VAM-11 PCGS MS64

Here’s a popular VAM variety to add to your collection. And in its grade of MS64, it is a more affordable option. PCGS has graded 41 examples of the 1900-O/CC VAM 11 as MS64 with 11 finer. Collectors Universe gives this variety a price of $1,600.00 in MS64.

Writes Ron Guth in PCGS Coinfacts, “The 1900-O over CC Silver Dollar is exactly that...it shows a New Orleans mintmark punched over a Carson City Mintmark. How could this be, when those two mints are so far apart? Actually, the Philadelphia Mint was responsible for making all of the dies used in all of the mints, including the branch mints. Thus, Philadelphia sent dies with O mintmarks to New Orleans and dies with CC mintmarks to Carson City. However, the Carson City Mint made no silver dollars after 1893, so there was no need for Philadelphia to send dies there in 1900.”

Closeup photo of O/CC mintmark on this variety. Photo: PCGS Coinfacts.