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Pillar of the Community
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Lol BadThad. Were you asking golddiggr49? Cause I was thinking the same exact thing.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yea, I want to know how many 99's he found. He makes them sound common...they definately are NOT.
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I know. I'm sure their price would be a lot cheaper if they were as common as the other 2 dates. Wild Bill has found a total of 254 wams I believe. A grand total of only 1 of those were the 1999 WAM. So that shows how rare they are. and they'd be even rarer on the west coast, where I've searched 35 boxes and have only 1 WAM total, a 1998. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I feel bad for the left coast cent searchers! There's just not a lot of Philly coins out there to search. In the midwest there's a TON of 98, 99, 00 cents to look at....it's almost annoying there's so many. LOL
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Pillar of the Community
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Haha, yeah. I get excited when I see a phili 98 99 or 00 because I actually get to check for the WAM. I probably get way less than a dozen to check per box. |
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So the WAMs are Philly mint only? I am new to these, but have checked all MM 98, 99 and 00's. I don't need to bother checking the D mm's?
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes the wams are philly only. Some people check d mint cents as well hoping that they will find the first denver mint WAM, but so far nothing has been found which leads most of us to believe they don't exist. Which makes sense that the error would only happen at one mint, and not simultaneously at both mints. but yes you can save yourself some time and only check the Philly coins. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quote:Some people check d mint cents as well hoping that they will find the first denver mint WAM, but so far nothing has been found which leads most of us to believe they don't exist. They do not exist for one very simple reason. In 1996, Denver got it's own die shop so all Denver business strike dies are created in Denver. Prior to that, dies for all mints were made in Philadelphia and that Mint does still produce dies for San Francisco. The Wide AM dies were created when they were accidentally impressed on a proof reverse hub, something that cannot possibly happen in Denver. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Well there ya have it. lol. Definitely don't waste your time checking d mint coins now.
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