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

Here’s a desirable VAM variety to add to your collection: the 1900-O/CC VAM 11. PCGS has graded 14 of the VAM 11 as MS64 with 12 finer. In CAC, there are 29 in MS64 with 14 finer. CAC prices this variety at $2,030.00 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.