1999-P Lincoln Cent - Wide AM & Off Center Strike

That is indeed a WAM reverse and congratulations to you for having a variety ( WAM) combined with an error (off-center strike).

Not sure how often that happens.

Most folks looking to validate the WAM tend to focus on AM and the FG locations. It's important to remember that in order to re-orient the reverse legends all of the lettering in UNITED STATES of AMERICA had to be redone.

So the spacing in STATES between the A and surrounding T's is just as valid as a diagnostic as the AM in AMERICA. You do not need to see the FG location to validate a WAM/CAM.

If the A has equal space between the T - it's a WAM

If the A is closer to the final T - its a CAM

To me, this is much easier to see and confirms what I said above - you have an 1999 WAM cent.

crazy off center strike okiepb,

but the date looks like 1990

levelsofmadness, after your comment, I took an even closer look at this coin, and attached another picture below.
I'm pretty sure the last digit is part of a 9.
It seems to me that if it were a zero the slope of the left side of the 0 would have a sharper downward angle.
At least that's my thought at the moment.

thanks coop for the pictures ...

excellent diagnostics

i need to copy these set of pics for my book of knowledge

Copy all of my images you need. Start a collection of information on a word page. Someday all of my images maybe gone. I pay for my image host and when I'm gone, I probably won't be able to pay the fees any longer. So by a storage drive and load up on them. I'm up to 11,142 now on my image host.

Coop, is there anyway you'd be able to put those into a zip or rar file for downloading somewhere on the site?

If not, I suppose I could just go through each thread and look for them, because those images REALLY help a lot when looking for certain things like Machine Doubling.

This is wonderful, thank you very much.

Instead of taking hundreds of screenshots, I right-clicked "save page as" and it copies the entire page, which includes the pictures, so I can view them offline.

Edit - You will need to do this for each individual page.

Another Edit - Coop, all the links including the 1 for Machine Doubling, takes up around 248 MB.


Edit - Don't forget about the 200+ images, on 7 pages, for Machine Doubling.

I'm not sure if this works with all web browsers, but it does with Firefox.

If anyone else does this, in your downloads (or whichever folder you specify), it will show a folder with the pictures AND a shortcut for the "offline webpage".

When you double click the shortcut, it will open your web browser so that you can read the page + view the pictures, even without an internet connection.

If you grab and move the webpage to another folder, it takes the pictures folder with it. Then if you want to, you can put them on a zip/flash drive etc.