Wide AM or Close AM. Which is it?

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joeykoins
joeykoins Posts: 18,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 1, 2021 8:47PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Can you please give me your opinion? I am purposely leaving out the picture of the FG initials. Thanks guy's :)

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Wide AM or Close AM. Which is it?

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  • derryb
    derryb Posts: 38,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 1, 2021 9:06PM
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    Close AM

    Close AM. Compare the A M space to the M E space. Equal space means "wide."

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  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 1, 2021 9:22PM
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    OK, good point. Good demonstration. Thanks. It's just that those two letters (A M) sure do seem to be quite apart?
    Here's mine and then a normal one.


    Sure would have been nice. Lol. Thanks for playing along, guy's.

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  • ChrisH821
    ChrisH821 Posts: 7,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 1, 2021 9:22PM
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    Wide AM

    Medium AM >:)
    Let's see the FG

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  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ChrisH821 said:
    Medium AM >:)
    Let's see the FG

    Yeah, I guess the cent is just worn? The FG does show the "Close AM" pattern. I didn't want to show because the AM still appeared apart. Lol.

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  • Jimnight
    Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Close AM

    What @derryb said.

  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Check this other 1996d out.

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  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    All signs point to close.
    And I too don't go by the FG, although if in a debate, that could come in handy.
    Good Boy, Good Boy.
    Close

  • blaircountycoin
    blaircountycoin Posts: 280 ✭✭✭
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    Close. Look at the M and E, the distance should have equal spacing similar to the A and M

  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    These three are all 1996d's


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  • lcutler
    lcutler Posts: 747 ✭✭✭✭
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    Close AM

    Clearly a close AM. Forget about the size of the gap between the A and the M, that can vary due to strike pressure and die wear. If the M is centered between the A and the E it is wide, if it is closer to the A then it is close. The FG is also a dead give away.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wide AM

    Is there such a thing as a 'wide/close AM?'.... :D;) Cheers, RickO

  • DCW
    DCW Posts: 7,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    FYI-The "Wide AM" 1996-D cent was debunked a long time ago. Doesn't mean there isn't one out there, but none have ever been verified.

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  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Soon , maybe or when I can get this place cleaned up and in order to be blunt, I'll jump into those errors.
    Prognosese:
    The FG style according to any ones guess's ( I Think or guess ), is all over the place at a approx. 1500 coin views.
    That endeavor seems to be somewhat of a filibuster in my research of other areas.
    My thoughts, don't trust the monogram.

  • JBK
    JBK Posts: 17,862 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Keep in mind that as the die is polished the gap will widen. The letters are tapered as they rise off the field of the coin, so as the die is polished and the height (off the surface if the coin) is reduced, the letters will be slightly thinner and farther spaced.

    In this scenario, a Close AM is still close, but the spacing might be slightly different that on a coin struck from newer dies.

    On the widest of your three examples the left leg of the M looks thinner.

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