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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7948041, member: 105098&quot;]Hi Kristine, sorry for your losses.</p><p>Unfortunately, there is a decent amount of learning and studying and experience involved, growth of knowledge really that just takes time, and can get confusing when trying to just jump right into the thick of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>it&#039;s not possible for the Wide AM cent to have the same initials as the close AM cent, because it&#039;s two different reverse designs. the variety happened in transitional years and for whatever the reason, the wrong reverse dies were used, or a proof reverse die was used in error depending on the year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a resource, Variety Vista, link is directly to Reverse Design Varieties,</p><p><a href="http://varietyvista.com/01b%20LC%20Doubled%20Dies%20Vol%202/Memorial%20Reverse%20Design%20Varieties.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://varietyvista.com/01b%20LC%20Doubled%20Dies%20Vol%202/Memorial%20Reverse%20Design%20Varieties.htm" rel="nofollow">http://varietyvista.com/01b LC Doubled Dies Vol 2/Memorial Reverse Design Varieties.htm</a></p><p>The website has all kinds of info for other denominations as well but they did it in the form of E books so they have to be hunted by searches for Variety Vista Washington Quarters, variety vista Roosevelt Dimes, ect.&nbsp; the lincoln cent page doesn&#039;t take you&nbsp; to the others, but it all exists on the internet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I started on the hunt for &quot;wide AM&quot; and &quot;close AM&quot; I had no idea how it was caused or why it happened, just looking for it blindly, as time went on I dug deeper and found this variety vista website which clarified it considerably, (also the other wide AM, 1988 with reverse of 1989 that nobody talks about much)</p><p><br /></p><p>there&#039;s also Obverse Design Varieties for lincoln cents, this is how the Small and large date 1960s and 1970s happened. also 2 different 1971 obverses paired with two different reverse designs making 4 different combinations, and ones that were struck with a doubled master obverse die, and ones without. creatign quite a few varieties for a variety hunter to look for, but none of any great value in 1971.</p><p><br /></p><p>The more you know, the easier it gets, but it&#039;s a lot of information to consume at once just from one denomination, nevermind more than one.</p><p>I can appreciate your willingness to learn and your enthusiasm, but we learned things over years and decades, it&#039;s really not something that can be learned overnight. But you can learn it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would suggest, picking a denomination and type that interests you, and stick to that for a bit, get to really know it, then expand to a different one. it&#039;s a lot of information to absorb trying to do it all from scratch. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish you luck and the best.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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