A good start to the new year.

atarian

Ive been telling my friends that 2011 will be soo much better than 2010 due to things that happened to me during the year. Well heres how my year started.

1st WAM of the new year.



and a 1881 Indian Head cent With "ERTY" readable in the head dress (barely)




Not bad finds for 1 cent each.

zap1111

Congrats! Yes, a fun way to start the year.
zap

lordmarcovan

What's a WAM?

If that Indian cent is a circulation find, bravo!

atarian

1998 99 and 2000 Lincoln Cents are usually CAM cents Close AM cents. But the mint goofed on some and used the Wide AM ( WAM ) reverse die that suppose to be used on 98S 99S and 00S. likewise there are some S mint coins with the business strike reverse. And yep the 1881 came out of the same box of cents. Now Im up to 5 IHCs in the last year.

ProofArtworkonCircs

<<What's a WAM?>>

Wide space between A and M of AMERICA. This was used on proof cents of 1994-2008 while the narrow AM space was used on the circulation strikes. There are interesting scarce exceptions to both rules.