VAM Morgan
Silver Dollars
 1904-O Morgan Dollar 26.73 grams; .900 silver; 38.1 mm  The Comprehensive Catalog and Encyclopedia of Morgan and Peace Dollars  |
"VAM—. . . [VAM is] An acronym for the authors of The Comprehensive Catalog and Encyclopedia of Morgan and Peace Dollars
, by Leroy Van Allen and A. George Mallis, who cataloged more than 2,000 different die pairs [varieties] that were used to strike the Morgan dollar series. http://www.vamworld.com contains much more information on Silver Dollar VAMs [including VAM Peace silver dollars]. . ." — VAM at Wikipedia. This version was edited and (or) revised by Mintmark.com". . . The dollar was authorized by the Bland-Allison Act of 1878. It has a fineness of .900, giving a total silver content of 0.77344 troy ounces (24.057 grams) per coin. The Comstock Lode, the greatest silver strike in history, was discovered in Nevada in the late 1850s. The strike put downward pressure on silver prices worldwide. In 1878 Congress passed the Bland-Allison Act which required the Treasury Department to purchase large amounts of silver, and to strike it as coins . . ." Read more about the history of Morgan silver dollars at Morgan Silver Dollars.
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1878-84 | 1885-93 | 1894-98 | 1899-1921 | GSA | VAM
1878-84 | 1885-93 | 1894-98 | 1899-1921 | GSA | VAM
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