1999 Regular issue.

notabot · Advanced Member

I THOUGHT I found a doubled die when I first posted, but I took the coin to a dealer, and he definately said it was simply die deterioration. The problem with new posters like me is we get all starry eyed and think we found that one in a million, and it is!! Problem is the other 999,999 of them JUST LIKE IT. Oh, well..maybe next time. He was nice and gave me five bucks for it cause he's in CONECA!

eagames · Expert Member

Can you post any pics of it?

Bob P · Site Admin

Notabot,
Before you send anything to Ken Potter, you may want to review this thread about his failure to return many coins to their owners. I am not saying don't send him anything, just be careful.

http://www.coppercoins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3020

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

Never did like the term "TRAILER TRASH" and it is definitely "fighting words" down here in Florida. A dollar to a donut some little white haired old lady would hear you say that, with her super-dooper hearing aids tuned in for gossip and bash you with her two wheeled "walker" just because you implied that she was white trash.

As far as your selection of a person to send it to, well, let me just say that he has three coins of mine for over a year now.

BJ Neff

Steven · Expert Member

I preferred Trailoure' Common when I was living in the only new home I had ever owned. Then I downgraded into used house of a lower classed foundationed community.
Would like to see a photo of the coin too.
Steven

Wink

coppercoins · Site Admin

I think sending it to the aforementioned attributer would be a mistake. You should consider sending it to someone else.

GarryN · Expert Member

Maybe Chuck or John Wexler. Or maybe someone locally, so you dont have to send it away

smed · Senior Member

My double-wide cost more than a lot of brick homes in this area... 1600+ sq ft, 5 yrs old, very comfortable.

Then there's the half-acre it sits on...

Rhubarb · Senior Member

Notabot,

If your coin pan's out I would call it a "Great" find. I agree with the other's as far as who to send it to. A picture would help us understand the term.

I have not heard of that description of a Lincoln Cent with 2 significant but different error's called Trailer Trash. Can you elaborate on the meaning to help clear thing's up.

Rhubarb

notabot · Advanced Member

Unbeknownst to everyone but me, I used to live in a trailer...in Florida. I lived near some beaches for years, but finally moved north. Guess what, theres some beaches here too...LOL!
O kay, who wants to attribute a slew of 10 or so pennies, on the board?
I cannot afford to lose what sense I have left so late in life. I need someone who can shoot good pics, and I will only ship to a residence, and no PO Boxes. It was distressing about the Ken Potter comments, but to be fair, he asked for a picture only.
And I do want to use our resources primarily.

coppercoins · Site Admin

Notabot - There are instructions for sending coins in for attribution here:

http://www.coppercoins.com/attribution.php

And sorry, I don't give out my street address. I check my mail every other day at the post office, and have for years. So far I've never had a problem with it.

notabot · Advanced Member

My crappy camera is exceeded by only my underwhelming camera prowess, so maybe someone here can attribute this. I would like it on the board and in the photo files, cause this is the foremost site in the known universe for cent information, and collectors need to know about this one.
I view the 98 99 and 2000 WIDE AM cents as rares in the same vein as the SVDB, the 16-D Mercury, and the three legged nickel.
If you examine the ANACS population reports for these coins, the numbers are STRIKINGLY similar. Only years later did it settle in on collectors how vital those earlier three items were, and these three new rares are climbing to the forefront of Lincoln Cent Collecting in the same plodding way.
I wanna be the one with thirty or so of these.
So should all of you.
And thanks for the heads up on the submission for coins, and my cousin Vinny just laughed and laughed and laughed at how dumb I am asking for a coin collector's street address... Laughing

eagames · Expert Member

You can probably ID if it's a wide AM yourself.
Look to be sure it is realy a wide AM, some close AMs have a small gap but others touch. The wide AMs have a big gap and the FG location is different.

notabot · Advanced Member

Thanks EA, it is definately a wide AM, so all that remains is verification of the doubled die state.
I will try to get a pic.

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

On the rarity of the 1998, 1999 and 2000 with wide AM, or sometimes refered to as Type II reverse. The 1999 is rare, however, the 1998 I would consider scarce with somewhere in the neighborhood of 250,000 to 350,000 being found. The 2000 is even more often found. In this last batch of $50.00 worth of Lincoln's, I found two 1998 wide AMs and a 2000 wide AM.

The population reports are not a great indicator of the amount of a particular die that is available. The rarer the coin becomes, the more apt it is to be slabed and as the rarity slides off, the less likely a person will spend money to slabe that variety or error. Such is the case with the afore mentioned wide AMs. The 1999 is more apt to be encapsulted than the 1998 and the 1998 encapsulated more often than the 2000 wide AM.

As to having a doubled die, I am not saying it is impossible, however, it is unlikely. This particular variety has been heavily studied by a few numismatist who are trying to figure out just how many dies have this oddity in that year. I would think that they would have run across a doubled die by now if one were out there.

BJ Neff