Unfortunately this one has alot of damage. The FG is gone, so what do you think? I'ts not quite touching, in fact it's got some space. But on both varieties, I've seen wider and closer than this. .
What year is it? You always need to post the year when asking WAM or CAM questions. That will be very helpful in determining if it matters or not!
what Paddyman says .... excerpt from http://www.lincolncentcollection.com/closeamwideam.html To summarize the following is normal: 1959-1992 all business strikes and proofs are supposed to have a Wide AM 1993 all business strikes and proofs have a Close AM 1994-2008 all business strikes have a Close AM 1994-2008 all proofs have a Wide AM What this means is that the following list of confirmed variations from these rules are valuable in order from most to least rare: 1992-P Business Strike Close AM 1992-D Business Strike Close AM 1998-S Proof Close AM 1999-S Proof Close AM 1999-P Business Strike Wide AM 1998-P Business Strike Wide AM 2000-P Business Strike Wide AM
Sorry guys, was in a hurry when I posted this. But yeah, it's a 1998D Penny, I didn't check that Paddyman site until after and saw that in all likelyhood it was a close because it's a D. But, had it been a Phili mint, how else could it have been idetified as wide or close?... I guess it wouldn't really matter that much on a coin that damaged?...
Let me ask, because, while I do understand how using a list of varieties can help determine if a coin has doubling or wide or close or any of those other error, I somehow think it's also pitfall to never finding any "new" errors that simply haven't been found yet. How exactly are the varieties on the pcgs' (or other) list obtained? Does the Mint provide a list of known errors or something to that effect or are the errors found and cataloged?
