Yup...the whole design is wrong for it to be the
Close AM.
One thing a bunch of people seem to miss is that it is not ONLY the A and M that is different between these designs. In fact, just about every single detail of these designs is very slightly different, only a few of them different enough for us to detect easily. One, of course, is the A and M and the spacing between them. The second well known difference is the spacing of the initials from the right base of the memorial building. The third (and I think much easier than the initials) difference is the fact that on the older "
Wide AM" design the A of STATES is evenly spaced between the two Ts. On the newer "
Close AM" design the same letter is shifted decidedly to the right. There is much more space to the left of the A than to the right. So you can see there's no reason to guess which one you have by the A and M alone. Stop guessing with one single marker and start looking at the other markers.