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Can someone explain what makes a wide AM so awesome? It seems minor to me, I just can't get excited. Please enlighten me!
Matt

 

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1998, 1999, 2000 are the most common WAM's (wide AM's). They are different from other business strikes of the same years because they were made with "proof" reverse die and normal business obverse die and so have become a very populate variety. The 1999 is pretty dang hard to find and worth a good premium. The 98 and 00 are more common and much easier to find and afford. I like them and collect them.. It's still possible to find them in circulation, but getting harder and harder every day,, the 99 is nearly imposssible to find, although badthad did manage to find 2! of them. I think I've seen someone else in the forum post a 99 find also.... they will be collectable for years, a nice cent variety, listed in redbook, easy to identify, limited volume, and a key date within the sub-series... all good hallmarks of "making it fun".

 

The 1999 WAM is a VERY tough coin. I've searched hundreds of boxes and only found 2. Lucky for me, both were mint state, one of which I sold in an NGC slab for $550 which was subsequently resold for about twice that.

 

It's an interesting variety series....the WAM/CLAM varieties. I have them all except for the impossible 1992 and 1992-D CLAM's which are extremely rare.

 

BadThad, if I remember correctly, I have one of the slabbed examples that you found in my registry set now. The 99WAM

 

I find it really interesting that the person who actually found this coin by cherry picking is someone i can put a name too. This coin is a very nice addition to my Lincoln Memorial Registry set. Thanks for finding it and having it graded.

 

Boooooo Badness !! coin should have come to me first.... I'm still stuck with this POS ! Ya know, you think you know some one and all of a sudden they pull hte rug from under you feet and sell their stud 99 WAM to someone else. What's the world coming to ?

 

HAHAHAHA....yea, it's cool that I found that coin. I wish I would have put a higher price on it though! I sold the better of the two that I found. Here's the one I kept nice and raw. I grade it AU but the TPG's would call it 63/64.

 

Tell you what....I probably searched a good 500+ boxes before I found that coin. In fact, I had already resigned to the fact that I'd never find a 99WAM. It's a depressing coin to search for, they are truly rare.

 

Here's a few of mine.

 

NGC MS69RD 2001D Lincoln Memorial obv and rev. NGC population of 1

 

Nice 2001D!

 

NGC 1964D MS67RD obv and rev. NGC population of 8. The last 2 examples of this coin sold last year. NGC example sold for $1000 and the PCGS example sold for $4025. Very tough too find in this date. A fellow collector sold this one too me about 2 years ago for $375.00

 

Welcome back Don.

 

Just got these in the mail. Won them on eBay last week for $17. These are the seller pics. When I get a chance I will image and then I will most likly send them to Robec for better imaging.
1956 Lincoln Toned 1c Proof

1961 Lincoln Toned 1c Proof

1944 Lincon Rainbow toned 1c

 

Very nice

 

Thank you.