1878-S Vam 77

[Flat-Chested]

Recent acquisition, happy to give it a home.

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[Flat-Chested]

Exceedingly hard to find coin, thought somebody would congratulate me over this. I also managed to obtain an extremely worn, and badly scratched details grade 1878-S VAM 106 this year, shares the same reverse, also difficult to obtain in any condition.

[Vamsky]

Congrats!

[morganman]

UGLY IS AS UGLY COULD BE LOL CONGRADS, GOTTA HATE THE LOWBALL JUNKERS!
Yet another of our beloved Morgan dollar facets, boy collectors must have been
mighty bored LOL LOL

[boomslang]

Nice find! I have been looking for one of those for quite awhile now with no luck so far. I check pretty much all of the low ball ones too. Must've been exciting!

[Flat-Chested]

Heritage Auctions sells a details graded Vam 77 about once every 4 years, have to be patient. They sell cheap.

[DHalladay]

Congratulations on your find.

77 is a very curious VAM to me. It's undeniably a rare: I have just 10 total sales of problem-free examples in all grades in my database... that's it. But what's really strange is the highest grade out of those 10 coins is just VF25:

1878-S 77 25 PCGS Aug-18 H $480
1878-S 77 25 PCGS Oct-15 E $385
1878-S 77 20 PCGS May-20 PP $600
1878-S 77 20 PCGS Jul-18 H $432
1878-S 77 12 NGC Aug-21 E $310
1878-S 77 12 NGC Sep-17 H $180
1878-S 77 10 PCGS Dec-19 PP $500
1878-S 77 10 PCGS May-14 E $407
1878-S 77 8 PCGS Feb-22 E $125
1878-S 77 8 NGC Oct-19 DL $103

[Flat-Chested]

Also...

1878-S 77 8 NGC MAY-17 H $49

[DHalladay]

Also...
1878-S 77 8 NGC MAY-17 H $49

Thank you! It has been added.

[vamsterdam]

Hard to believe that one with such a low population has such a low interest. I sold a pcgs25 last year of year before and several others.

[Flat-Chested]

I guess there are close to thirty of these coins rolling around in graded cases, they are not super rare. I have two with clear grades and now this third example with problems.