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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 188746, member: 66&quot;]The AM do not have to touch to be a close AM.&nbsp; As mentioned earlier polishing of the dies will cause the seperation of the letters to widen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another way to tell the wide from close if you aren&#039;t sure is the look at the vertical of the G in the initials.&nbsp; On the close AM the vertical goes straight up and ends.&nbsp; On the wide AM it goes up and then has a small horizontal serif to the left.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;To date no wide AM cents have been reported for 1998, 1999, or 2000 from Denver.&nbsp; The 1992 close AM are known from both Philadelphia and Denver.&nbsp; The Denver coins are rare, and currently the Philadelphia piece is unique, but probably more exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is very unlikely that wide AM cents exist from Denver for 98,99, and 2000.&nbsp; The wide AM cents are from dies that were impressed with the reverse hub used to make reverse dies for proof cents.&nbsp; Now the Philadelphia mint makes all of their own dies, and they make all of the proof dies used in San Francisco.&nbsp; Before 1997 they also made the dies for Denver.&nbsp; But starting in 1997 Denver had its own die shop and made their own dies.&nbsp; They did not make proof cent dies, so they did not have the wide AM reverse hub.&nbsp; In 98, 99, and 2000 they made their own dies and did not receive dies from Philadelphia.&nbsp; So they could not have made their own wide AM dies, and they would not have received any from Philly.&nbsp; This makes the possibility of D mint wide AM cents basically zero.&nbsp; The only way it could happen would be for a leftover die from 1992 to be found and pressed into service.&nbsp; But since all of the dies are destroyed each year that is also farfetched.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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