My First Wide A M!

Very happy for you, Jake!

Congrats, on the find. Hard work doing all that sorting!

Nice! Those are fun to find!

Great find. This is the Striated version, with deep die gouges through E Pluribus Unum. Also if you will note under the first dot to the left of UNUM there is what appears to be a die clash. The 1999 Wide AM also has as part of it's variety this feature, which makes it a 1999 WAM/ with the WAM Reverse of 1998. Your 2000 with that die clash is one of only five I know of. It has the reverse with that same die clash which is on the 1999. Apparently, that one reverse die was used from 1998 THROUGH 2000. I am the only one who has posited this, and I have yet to have this anomaly verified by an authenticator, but that small die clash under E Pluribus Unum is on 1998, 99 and 2000 WAM Memorials. I only found four, so good find locating a fifth. Once I get all mine authenticated, then I can compare notes. I have over 400 year 2000 Wide AM. I bought every roll I could find. The neat thing is that they are spread over at least 17 die pairs, according to Billy Crawford, so even though you have a Wide AM from one of the three years, you could have one of a much smaller subset die pair. The 1999 WAM Dies have only 4 (four) known pairs according to Billy. Less than 100 known total, closer to 50. The WAM are the key to modern Memorials. I will post some here, once I get to my Safe Deposit box.
Good find, once again.

Congratz! I'm just getting started. Been collecting now for about a year and a half. Just started to really search out Errors, Die Varieties. I've been saving all my pocket change for the last year and a half after I looked in a Red Book LOL. Glad to see their still some out their. Quick question if you don't mind how do you separate you cents. I'm keeping mine in a cut milk jug. I've tried to take out really bad ones but they seem to still get worst and worst.

I'm so jealous! One of us on the forum has found a bunch of em.

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