Keep searching and good luck. I found a 1998 Wide AM while searching bank rolls this past week-end. It was the first one that I'd found since last summer. The trick is to get the open-ended rolls or what I call "Fed-wrapped" rolls. They're actually wrapped by the armored transport company that delivers coins to the bank, but the banks themselves refer to them as being "Fed wrapped" coins. Your chances of finding Wide AM's IMHO are better if searching Fed wrapped coins than if searching local coinage. "Local" rolls are wrapped by customers and brought into the banks by their customers. Now if you are lucky enough to be in the neighborhood where the Wide AM varieties were originally introduces into circulation, then you want to search "local" rolls... because that's where the Wide AM's are!
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ok thanks Murphy. i will look through both types then. i am from around eastern idaho area, kinda close to the denver mint (sadly enough on old wheat cents thats the most commen mint). well anyways thanks for all the info. i am going to get another box in the morning. well thanks again.
Gene2393, Just wanted to jump in and also tell you to watch for the 1997 Double Ear Variety as well when searching rolls. I've found 3 examples in rolls in the last 3 years of searching also make sure to check all 1972 lincoln cent coins for doubling as there is 9 Double dies other than die one. I found a nice Au example of a die 3 last week going through rolls. Good Luck on your finds. Mike.
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well gene i think its safe to say that you have the lincoln fever, but fear not as i do too! There are sooo many varieties out there and the enormous amount and availability of the penny makes it the most fun to search IMO. I just started on my numismatic adventures about a month or so ago and ive probably went through no less than 5,000 pennies..its an addiction. My advice to you is this...if you are going to be searching rolls and rolls or pennies then i suggest that you do some research on as many different varieties as you can, i have 3 pages of information about lincoln cents and their varieties. It is VERY easy to pass up a penny if you limit your searching to specific varieties like the Close and Wide AM's and remember..if it looks funny set it aside and hit up the coppercoins website because you just never know what you have.
Good luck with the hunt! I also like to search rolls, and have found the 98 & 2000 wide AM's. And like rabbittracks said check out those 97's also, I have found 2 of the doubled ear varities. Oh, don't forget the double die 1995 I found one of those also. Have fun, woodwalker
When I first heard of the wide AM variety, I coincidentally had been throwing change into a big bottle for years. I went thru them all looking for a wide AM. This isn't scientific, but I went thru about 400 cents dated 2000 and found just 1 wide AM.
I have a question for coppercoins in particular but anyone really...are there varying degrees of spacing in the close/wide AM varieties? The reason i ask is because i had 2 1992-D sets from the mint and i could have sworn that i found a close AM when compared side by side with the other one. There was a noticeable difference in the positioning of the A and the M between the two sets. Thoughts and feeling on this subject are wanted and welcomed
To be a wide AM it must have the spacing like the pics above. It actually can be seen without a loupe. Close AMs are described as almost touching. As far as I know there is no in between.
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searching rolls. I've found 3 examples in rolls in the last 3 years of searching also make sure to check all 1972 lincoln cent coins for doubling as there is 9 Double dies other than die one. I found a nice Au example
of a die 3 last week going through rolls. Good Luck on your finds. Mike.
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this is what i found... noticibly anyways:
1- 1939 wheat cent
1- 1944 wheat cent
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2- 1958d wheat cents
well now i gotta go look at all the ones i pulled aside (see if there are any wide or close AM varieties)
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<< <i>does anyone have a picture of the doubled ear variety of the '97?
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I searched an OBW '97 roll earlier today but didn't find one.
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