1988 Lincoln cent

Greetings all is it my eyes or is the FG in the initials way closer to the memorial then supposed to be. I've included a few pictures from variety Vista. I believe it's a wide am and the g has one flare on the horizontal line but no pics to match my coin. Schooling please

 

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A better close-up of the designer’s initials would help. As it is, with the other plating issues, I vote it is not a flared G…probably a plating blister next to the G.
…imo…Spark

 

Looks perfectly normal to me. Welcome to CT.

 

Welcome...So you want some schooling - nice ....So that's my name and I sent my 88 to Dr James Wiles about 15 years ago. It took my awhile to convince others that this variety existed, but he agreed. Most shot me down like the Red Baron. For me back then I'd like to look at the style of font then I know what year the penny is. If that sounds weird that's what happened. With my 1988 ....I thought it was the 89-92 group but hey- it caught my eye. I tested myself with a pile of 86 thru 92's and my 88 always ended up in that 89-92 group. So with your 1988 Paul, it does look like a RDV-006. Wish your pics weren't so much glare, plus the Lincoln Memorial looks more sharper image like in the 89-92 (RDV-006)group. maybe you can get a better picture. Also check the font style too between the #5 and #6 versions. By the way ...nice looking 1988. This variety seemed like it's found more in the Northeast by the way.
One thing that most say about this variety is being wide am. Of course Wide AM(RDV-006) has to have the opposite Close AM(RDV-007) variety which does not exist for 1988 but Cherry Pickers liked to group it that way sorta. The 85-88 group is RDV-005 but is neither Wide or Close. But thats my gruff. Snowman

 

Is Jeff snow and snowman the same person? From the way you explain things it seems you are a very intelligent man in your field. Can I have your autograph lol. But seriously I did understand most of that explanation so I'll go back to the sources and get different takes on it. Thank you Jeff. Oh my bad snowman

 

PS.... You people don't think that the FG is closer to the memorial than any of the other ones? Then it must be my eyes

 

You’ve got shadows, glare and pixelation in your pix. As I said before you need to provide a better close-up before we can properly assess…imo…Spark

 

Here are some ideas for picture taking. Note that lighting and background are important for setting off the coin details.

 

Please note that a coin in hand and a coin in photos can look completely different.

 

Thanks everyone I'll check out that lighting that you suggested it seems simple enough.

 

Yes !