I didn’t see anywhere that there is a wide am variant from Denver in 2000 but I did read somewhere that as long as the a and the m aren’t toughing at all it’s considered wide. What do you think?
Wide AM's are only on the Philly cents. Yours is clearly a close AM. For it to be wide, the space between AM and ME should be basically the same.
Oof. Youtube is only good for music videos. And Peppa Pig videos if you ask my 3 year old. For coins? not so much.
All too often peeps don say what there thinking when there typing and they don proofread it neither before they post their reply specially when there using there fon because they cant read the whole post on that dinky little screen and that is also why they don use punctiation cuz them lil dots n curlicues take up space so thins get lost in translation.
Normally what happens is someone understands some basics and then thinks that "error/variety" exists across all years. When in fact the Wide AMs are only identified for a few specific years. This happens for about everything. Then also watch out for any videos where the coin is fuzzy, out of focus etc. Many of those YouTubers are after clicks to try and get revenue and they really do not care that their content is incorrect.
Speshuly when theys openin a link and theys scroll down and sees that the link is reel long like 5 pargraphs or more and theys don wanna reed the hole thin so theys skip over lots of it and thin theys no it all. ~ Chris
By 2000, the Denver mint wasn't relying on the Philly mint to produce their master dies. And it is generally believed that this improved 'quality' overall, but even on process produced errors...Denver has a better 'quality' track record. Variety hunters 'depend' more on the sloppiness of the Philly mint...as a result.
Thats cuz philly workers are in to much of a hurry to get off an git to the poker tables in AC. ~ Chris
I like to think it's because they generally are producing more than the other mints so they are busier and more prone to making a few errors. But...
Except for PCGS grading videos, which I found very helpful. Sometimes I wonder if some of the graders apply the info when they evaluate a coin.
