how hard the 98,99,00 wide A M varieties? I would also like to know about cuds, or the Double Dies in the RED BOOK for the later issued Lincolns. I search 2 to 5 boxes a week ( I have been off work for a year with an injury and just started back in coin collecting after about 20 years) and have never found any of these althoough I do have some i hope to photograph and get opinions on. Is living in Texas a disadvantage for P mint errors in rolls, or am I just unlucky? Thanks kent
Kent, here in fl most of our rolls contain P mint coins (about 3/4 of each roll) so finding the wide AMs may be a little easer. In the last year I have found 9 98 and 21 2000 wide AMs. No 99s, the one we want to find. I can go for a month and not find any then bingo theres one. So hang in there there is a lot out there to find. Some of the better finds for me this year are- 97 double ear, 2 1972s with nice doubling one no date Split after Strike lincoln and a Quarter with a "Rolled in Wire". Good luck searching and read any thing you can on errors and varietys. Bill G
Hi Kent. It seems to me these error varieties are getting harder and harder to find. It took me about 3 weeks to a month to find any kind of error and that was only a 2000 wide A M. I'm really looking for my first 1988 type 6 reverse. I'd also be estatic over a 1992-D. jUST KEEP SEARCHING AND PAYING YOUR DUES AND you'll rewards will come.
Hi Kent, I too live in Texas and yes it is hard to find these coins but they can be found. I have six Wide AM and one Close AM (2-98's, 1-99, 3-2000 and 1-92) all found in rolls I have got form the banks here in town. I also have someone in Mississippi sending me rolls but I have yet to find any Wide or Close AM's in these rolls. Now how funny is that, but I do search about 10X the rolls from here then I do form Miss. Keep looking you will find them.
Well I know it isn't as much fun but a 1998 WAM and a 2000WAM, because I figured if I bought 1 for a couple of bucks I would find 1 just because of my lack of will power in holding off til I found them. LOL
Harder than you might think. Take the 1995 DDO, it is one of the most common of the major doubled dies. I've seen estimate that the die may have run it's full lifetime, call it 600,000 pieces. Now if you took those 600K and randomly mixed them in with JUST the rest of the 1995 P cents and then took boxes of that (solid 1995 P cent boxes) you would have to search four boxes to find a 1995 DDO. But there are a lot more cents than 1995 P out there. So if you take a random sampling of cents, what percentage of them are 1995 P? 3%? 10%? If it is 10% you will have to search 40 boxes. If it is 3% it will take 120 boxes. And like I said that is the most common one.
This a 1988 with a 1989 reverse also called 1988/89 or RDV-006 over on Lincoln Cent Resource - this a popular coin on the forum to talk about - most have been found in the Northeast article about it http://www.lincolncentresource.com/Featured/1988RDV6.html
HI andy21us , do you really have a 1992 close AM. If you do, you are in an elite group. WOW! If you've put it on CT already could you tell me where to look at it. Please take care of it and keep it safe. CONGRATS, CONGRATS. zeke
