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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DieVarietyNews, post: 1031593, member: 27410&quot;]I believe one attributer is attempting to catalog all the different dies and around 20+ dies have been documented, at least so far.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A production run die life can vary.&nbsp; But, going on an overall average die life of 1,000,000 coins struck then that equates to 20 million 1998 Wide AM produced already. Most likely probably more.</p><p><br /></p><p>We do know that most if not all of the 1998 Wide AM were produced at the end of the 1998 production year.&nbsp; At least, so far documented anyway, 4 of the 1998 Wide AM obverse working dies were pulled and replaced to the 1999 obverse working die starting the new production year.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the press operator left the same Wide AM reverse die in the press thereby creating the much rarer 1999 Wide AM.&nbsp; I discovered this a few years ago by comparing die markers and my findings were published in the&nbsp; &quot;Collectors&#039; Clearinghouse&quot; column in <i>Coin Word</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, depending on where you live makes a difference in finding them.&nbsp; Here in SC I average coming across a 1998 Wide AM in about $50 searched. This past weekend I searched two bricks and got lucky coming across two 1998 Wide AM.&nbsp;&nbsp; It takes me about $150 searched average to come across the 2000 Wide AM and it takes about $1500 searched to come across the 1999 Wide AM.</p><p><br /></p><p>Billy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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