Is one of these a wide am or dose close am have a certain span

Just wondering how wide the am had to be both of these are 1993 one is twice the distance as the other

 

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Those are not Wide AM.

 

Ty

 

Is this?


A M


Or this?

AM

 

For your coin to be considered “wide AM”, the Space between AM and ME are pretty much equidistant. Look at a 1992 cent for a good example.
I would post a picture of one of my WAMs but I am on my phone right now. Lincolncentresource has some good info on WAMs/CAMs.

 

Awesome ty. I'm post another question coin rite now lol

 

This is on a 92 and one of the best Picture descriptions I have found yet..
On yours I would say both are close AM though the 2nd does show seperation It still appears to be a close AM...

 

Ty you are all awesome

 

This link may help in understanding what went on here.
http://varietyvista.com/25 What Are Die Varieties/Lincoln Cent Memorial RDV Changes.htm

it's variety vista, it's reverse die varieties.
Either way variety vista is a good resource of information. over the years on memorial cents they changed the design of the reverse slightly. This also happened on the Obverse from time to time, but that's another story, if you want to look at those, look up "Lincoln cent ODVs" on the same variety vista website.

Anyways, in the "transition years" where a switch to the newer die style happened, the errors occurred with the wide or close AM, the wrong die was used, Like in the case of the 1992 Close AM, RDV-007 was used for some but it should have still been RDV-006.
With the Wide AM's of 1998,1999, 2000, they used RVD-006 and was supposed to be using RVD-007.

 

Make that

A M E
or
AM E

 

Where did you get that table on the left?

 

It was included when I found the entire image.