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<p>[QUOTE="Clinker, post: 270573, member: 6229"]You've probably heard about Lincoln Cents with a <b><i>Narrow</i></b> or a <b><i>Wide</i></b> <b>AM.</b></p><p><b></b>Do yoiu know the mint struck both varieties in three different years?</p><p> </p><p>1998</p><p> </p><p>1999</p><p> </p><p>2000</p><p> </p><p>You may even know business strikes of all three years were struck in both varieties.</p><p> </p><p>Do you know the <b><i>Wide</i></b> <b>AM</b> was created only for proof coinage of those three years? All <b><i>Narrow</i></b> <b>AM </b>reverses were struck with regular "business strike" dies.All <b><i>Wide</i></b> <b>AM </b>reverses were struck using proof dies.</p><p> </p><p>Do you know, on all <b><i>Narrow</i></b> <b>AM </b>strikes the designer's initials (<b>FG</b>)are farther from the base of the monument than are those on the <b><i>Wide</i> AM </b>proofvariety?</p><p> </p><p>Here's an image of a regular business strike coin's reverse courtesy of Ken Potter:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy1RevMicros.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy1RevMicros.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy1RevMicros.jpg</a></p><p> </p><p>Here's an image of the business strike with the proof die's reverse. Note the closeness of the designer's initials:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy2RevMicros.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy2RevMicros.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy2RevMicros.jpg</a></p><p> </p><p>For your information:</p><p> </p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: #ff0000">"A search of current and completed eBay auctions seems to imply that the 1998 may be <u>very scarce to rare</u> since a number of 2000 dated specimens have been offered while there are no offers of the 1998! </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><span style="color: #ff0000">1999 specimens appear to be exceedingly rare!"</span></font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><span style="color: #ff0000"> </span></font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></font></font></b>Now I want to report more ineptness: This time at the San Francisco Mint. Proof cents dated 1998-S and '99-S are known to exist with regular business-strike die reverses.</p><p> </p><p>The following photo courtesy of <a href="http://conecaonline.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://conecaonline.org" rel="nofollow">http://conecaonline.org</a>, Ken Potter (koinpro.com) and Michelle Smith</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://conecaonline.org/image/1998S1cPrTy1Rev300px.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://conecaonline.org/image/1998S1cPrTy1Rev300px.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://conecaonline.org/image/1998S1cPrTy1Rev300px.jpg</a></p><p> </p><p>Hope this helps in your knowledge of numismatics...</p><p> </p><p>Clinker[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clinker, post: 270573, member: 6229"]You've probably heard about Lincoln Cents with a [B][I]Narrow[/I][/B][I][/I] or a [B][I]Wide[/I][/B][I][/I] [B]AM. [/B]Do yoiu know the mint struck both varieties in three different years? 1998 1999 2000 You may even know business strikes of all three years were struck in both varieties. Do you know the [B][I]Wide[/I][/B][I][/I] [B]AM[/B] was created only for proof coinage of those three years? All [B][I]Narrow[/I][/B][I][/I] [B]AM [/B]reverses were struck with regular "business strike" dies.All [B][I]Wide[/I][/B][I][/I] [B]AM [/B]reverses were struck using proof dies. Do you know, on all [B][I]Narrow[/I][/B][I][/I] [B]AM [/B]strikes the designer's initials ([B]FG[/B])are farther from the base of the monument than are those on the [B][I]Wide[/I] AM [/B]proofvariety? Here's an image of a regular business strike coin's reverse courtesy of Ken Potter: [URL]http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy1RevMicros.jpg[/URL] Here's an image of the business strike with the proof die's reverse. Note the closeness of the designer's initials: [URL]http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/19981cTy2RevMicros.jpg[/URL] For your information: [B][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#ff0000]"A search of current and completed eBay auctions seems to imply that the 1998 may be [U]very scarce to rare[/U] since a number of 2000 dated specimens have been offered while there are no offers of the 1998! [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ff0000]1999 specimens appear to be exceedingly rare!"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ff0000] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ff0000][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]Now I want to report more ineptness: This time at the San Francisco Mint. Proof cents dated 1998-S and '99-S are known to exist with regular business-strike die reverses. The following photo courtesy of [url]http://conecaonline.org[/url], Ken Potter (koinpro.com) and Michelle Smith [URL]http://conecaonline.org/image/1998S1cPrTy1Rev300px.jpg[/URL] Hope this helps in your knowledge of numismatics... Clinker[/QUOTE]
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