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Valued Member
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Nice congrats, how long did it take you or how many rolls did you go through? I am going crossed eyed looking for them!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4000 Posts |
The '98's and '00's may be the more "common" WAM's, but they're still hard and fun to find! |
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Nice congrats, how long did it take you or how many rolls did you go through? I am going crossed eyed looking for them!
Since starting back in to roll searching in August, this coin was in my 24th $25.00 box. Now if only I could find a 92 CAM.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, that means my 2 - 3 boxes this year were not enough. Still looking though....Congrats.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Congrats! That's a nice one too!
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Valued Member
United States
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Sorry newbie here.....what does WAM stand for? where can I get some WAM? and what year are WAMS?....LOL Thanks. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I have probably found some in the past and pitched them in the dump pile! how rare are the WAM's anyway? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
WAM stands for Wide AM (as in AMERICA)..the distance between A and M is supposed to be almost nil on a correctly minted 98,99,00 but they mistakenly used a proof reverse pattern die which has a noticable seperation between A & M. The 98's and 2000's are fairly common, but the 99 is considered pretty rare. Do a search on Wide AM, pictures will explain better than words.
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Pillar of the Community
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keep looking they will show up.me and my son used to look through 10 boxes a week for a while. we ended up finding about 15 99wam,s and I guess 100 each of the 98,s and 2000,s.so they are out there. later greg
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Pillar of the Community
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start unloading those 99's greg.. there is some $$ there
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Valued Member
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I have no experience when it comes to WAMs, only what I read on this blog. But is the variation in this Lincoln Penny the spacing between the A and the M in America, that makes it so special? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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sold one the other day for 51.00 on the bay.we sold three back when we first started finding them for around 900.00.sold one to pay for my sons band trip to fla one year and my son sold one to raise money for his wedding for 300.00 a few months ago. I guess we still have 6 or 7 of them.later greg
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from what I hear, it is that on the 98,99, 00 cents, ones that have the space between the A and M, that die was used for proof cents that year, and were not supposed to be used on biz strikes. I BELIEVE, that is what makes them unique. I AM NOT SURE however, WHY the 99 is much more exp than the other two... maybe low mintage est? anyone?
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Evidently multiple die pairs were used for both the 1998 and 2000. I have only seen coins from one reverse die for 1999.
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