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Pillar of the Community
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how hard is it in your opinion to find the 98 99 or 2000 widw am pennies? and what kind of values do these pennies have? thanks greg
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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United States
588 Posts |
P.S I found 2WAMs in two day but searched for a year
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Very difficult, I've found two 98's and one 2000 WAM after searching about 100 boxes or more. |
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 United States
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I have been through about 150 boxes and found two 2000 WAM's in EF-AU condition. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I have found four 2000 and one 1999. Stilllookin for the 1998. I have just started looking this year and probably looked through 25 or so boxes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have found over ten each of the 98 and the 2000, but only one 99.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
811 Posts |
me and my son have found about 50 98,s and 50 2000,s and 11 99,s. but we havent looked for about a year.so I guess we have had pretty good luck. later greg
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks to this forum, I now look very closely at any 1998-2000 Philly Cents I get in my change. I just had a 1998 BU in my change today, which was not a Wide AM, but even a wheatie won't catch my attention like a BU 1998-2000 Zinc Cent nowadays...  Gee, thanks guys, now I'm having to pay attention to Zinc Cents (especially with the Log Cabins slowly popping up in my change!).  Edited by DNA
05/09/2009 7:47 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i would not say it is hard to find them it just takes a lot of work. Looking at each cent you know. But I enjoy it so it does not bother me. My totals are 4 2000's and 2 98's. I have searched a lot of boxes but I have not always looked for the Wide AM. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Ive searched about 40 boxes and have found 2 98 wideams and 5 2000 wideams. No 99 yet. Oh yeah and my girlfriend found me one too hehe.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You need to remember to look at other years for these WAM coins as well. Recently one was discovered on either a 96 or a 97 I forget which. The WAM is something which could exist for ANY year from 1994 to date. So far it has only been found on four years but that is possibly because better than 90% of the people looking only look at those years it has already been reported for. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Recently one was discovered on either a 96 or a 97 I forget which. A 1996 WAM by Billy Crawford. But it was supposedly stolen a couple months ago. I can't find any stories about this on the 'net, except for news of the find in Numismatic News. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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But if it was found and verified it doesn't matter that it was later stolen. It means there are 96 WAM's. And I merely maintain that WAM for the other years are POSSIBLE, but if no one looks for them, even if they do exist they won't be found. So check for WAM on all 1993 - 2008 P cents, and 1993 - 1996 D cents. (Before 1997 Denver got their cent dies from Philly so a WAM could have been sent there. 1997 and later Denver was making their own dies and was only receiving the Master Hubs from Philly. If they go a WAM Master Hub all their dies would be WAM that year, and I doubt if Philly makes more than one proof design master hub each year, so I don't think they would mistakenly send it to Denver. |
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United States
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But if it was found and verified it doesn't matter that it was later stolen. Sorry I wasn't clear. Apparently the "verified" part is questionable. Some believe that the coin was fake (or altered?). But I do check all years, because as you say, anything is possible. |
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United States
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I have been looking for Wide AM's for about a year now and I still have not found one, I guess some are just lucky. |
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