Found 1999 Wide AM Cent

I certainly hold the waiting throne! LOL Well, my dealer can have my coins sitting in his vault for 6 months before he sends out a shipment....then he sends like 100 coins so it's a super SLOW process. However, I always tell him I'm not in a hurry. The bottomline, he only charges me $25 flat for NGC/PCGS....hard to beat that deal.

 

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+1. An MS65 sold on ebay for $350 so yeah the one you have should be worth $100 in the condition that it is in. Congrats nice find.

 

Yeah the 1999 is definitely the rarest of the WAM's, I have never found a 99 but have found 8, 1998 WAMs and 9, 2000 WAMs. Never found a 92 CAM either which are the rarest of the CAM/WAMs.

Awesome find and I wouldn't sell it for less then $100.

 

For the record, I don't know of anybody besides myself or thad that has found two 1999 WAMs.

 

I'm pretty sure a couple of folks on LCR have. It is extremely LUCKY to find two 99 WAM's. I have have yet to find another.....and honestly, I think I used all my luck up on these. LOL

 

I was at the Long Beach show today, and of course I had to pick up some books. One of the books I picked up was the NGC Grading Guide for Modern US Coins (1st ed., 2004) which also has census reports (for NGC) and it lists 4 1999 WAM's they certified up to then. 3 were MS-66 and 1 was MS67. At the same time they had only certified 1 1992-D CAM (MS 65), but had certified 91 1998 WAMs (between MS 64 and 67). I don't know the current population, but compare that to the 1995 doubled die where there were 7751 in MS-67 and 4503 in MS-68.

 

What do you think of me having it "conserved" by NGC and then sent on for grading?

 

Hey yuse guys, ya gotta include me in your bunch.

 

While we have the wide AM pioneers on board here, I have a question. When was the first one discovered?

I started searching for them in 1999. I found my first 2000 wide AM in early June 2000. I alerted Bill Edwards and he quickly found an 1998 one.

I planned to write a blurb on them, but then found a spurious wide AM due to die polishing. I never found the words to explain that.

 

2004 is ancient history for population reports. If you join ha.com, you can get free population data for NGC and PCGS. Regardless, you should join ha.com anyway because it's free and full of valuable information.

 

Increase your pictures to at least 800x600 so I can see it better. I can't hardly see anything in the 300x300 images. Probably not worth slabbing unless you can get it done for $25 or less. It's just not cost effective. Also, NCS would not do anything to this coin.....I can 99% guarantee that based on what I can see.

 

Just wondering, does the close AM still apply with the new 2009, 2010, 2011 pennies?

 

Think about what you just said.

 

No the WIDE am does not, it was only 98-00, also with that said, we already had/have a new design from 09 to present day. (Lincoln Bicentennial & Shield).

 

I don't have to think about what I just said. I meant what I typed. Do the new pennies use the close AM. Instead of trying to give an arrogant reply, how about you ask what I meant? Thanks.

To the next replier, yes I know there is a new design on the 09 to present day. But the word AMERICA is still on the reverse and was wondering if they still use CLOSE AM. Thanks.

 

It is a completely different design and different dies. So, no. I have to agree with Merc Crazy. What you asked is like asking if the Liberty Nickel has a "Wide AM" and "Close AM" version. They are completely different animals.

 

Current NGC populations (Sept 11, 2011):
1992 C-AM, 3 coins (1 BN, 1 RB, 1RD)
1992-D C-AM, 7 coins (2 BN, 1 RB, 4 RD)
1998 WAM, 229 coins (all RD)
1999 WAM, 106 coins (6 BN, 22 RB, 78 RD)
2000 WAM, 652 coins (all RD)

 

Thanks for all the input, I really appreciate it!

 

No, as far as is known, they don't use a Close AM in America for the newer reverses. That doesn't mean that in the future they won't.

 

Stupid questions get stupid answers.