1999 wide AM penny?

I'm new to collecting and have recently started going through rolls of pennies looking for doubled dies and different thing like that i read online about a 1999 Wide AM penny i was wondering if this is one

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

No. Not a WAM.

 

Yours is a close AM.
Wide AM and Close AM information.
http://www.lincolncentresource.com/wideams.html

 

I removed this post as it posed a risk of confusing others.

 

I have looked at tens of thousands and have never found one. Not one.

 

Read the link that I posted above. (#3)

 

I 'liked' your comment but not what it probably means in terms of the probability that I'll be wasting my time looking at that sack of possible wide or near AMs!

 

Thank you very much. Although I have read that several times I apparently still was not completely understanding what I was looking for in terms of wide or near AMs. Now I'm clear about it and will keep the list before me as I go through my sack of the years in question. Thank you again.

 

No, not close:

 

I would not call it a waste of time. They are easy to look for easy to identify once you use the initials for confirmation and i have found one before. Keep searching it is exciting to find rare coins.

 

@nvrdwn88
What makes me crazy is trying to remember the rule as I'm looking through the rolls of cents for the first time. I stop each time and try to remember the rule: I ask myself, is it that I want a wide AM on these dates or that a wide AM is normal for those dates? I'm afraid I'll make a mistake and send the keeper back to the bank! Aarrgghhh!! That's why I set them aside. Now I will be able to have the rule in front of me and just go through all of them. I will know the rule when I finish so deciding on AM coins as I hunt my rolls will not slow me down as it does now.

 

You don't have to remember, just print the page I linked above.

 

I will do so. Thanks.

 

But I'm still looking!

 

If you really need a "rule", perhaps consider this...

C (as in Close AM) comes before W (as in Wide AM), and 1992 (C-AM) also comes before 1998/1999/2000 (W-AM).

 

I before E, except . . .

 

@BooksB4Coins - "C before W and maybe S" (98S and 99S)
@rickmp - Lol

Really, I will learn the rule with a bit of practice. I was just trying to convey that, for me as I am early in the roll hunting learning process, interrupting my 'rhythm' while reviewing rolls was slowing me down. I'll get it!

 

My suggestion was obviously only for business strikes and was based upon this....

While not outside the realm of possibility, if you're roll searching, chances are you're not going to coming across many PRs, but yes.... you're right.

 

The easiest thing to remember about the 98 99 and 2000 WAM is that the g in the fg on the reverse right of the memorial will look like a a capital G and the normal non wide am will not have the serif.

 

Is it me but the only thing that confuses me is when there is alway some sort of smegma always lying in between the A and M when i think i have one. Have one now with black toning (maybe blue) in that area. Ugh!!!!!