My wide AM collection, in spurts.

[JeanK]

Very impressive Legend!
(No wonder some of us have to buy a wide A M to get one for their collection)
Jean

[legend]

I have 12 graded, and ten more on the way in. I started collecting very early, ran into a seller with rolls, then one at the time. Now finding groups is tough, but these will revisit the community after we get them cataloged. DVN is a real trooper for helping me with identifying one die, so here's to him, and this board is so very cool to submit stuff to, as everyone here loves coins so very much. Thanks for the feedback, yall!

[mousey70]

Terric! Never saw anything like it. Great for you. I bet you have at least twenty four 1999's too. PLease save some for me. Thanks.

[legend]

Five more pages are left.

And that rocket memorial has seemed to left the building. May have to turn the fed secret searchers in over that one, send them all to prison for a while.

[Jonathan]

Between him and Roger, Idont think any are left. Heres what I found so far:

98 -1
99 -0
00 -1

lolol

Ohhhhhhh that's nice, 1998 ones i heard are one of the rarest. I think the Wide AM 1992 "P" is the rarest though. Nice work.

[Jonathan]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Decent legend. Quite the collection you've got there. Are any for sale? I bet if you sold all them it would at up to like $2,000. Again nice collection. GRRRRRRR now i don't know if i'll get any of them

[legend]

found a post...

I posted a pic of my penny jars, and I have since located it. Thanks.

[jgmick]

total

Hey Legend, What is your total count up to for all all of the wide AM years?

Myself,
98 =6
99 =1
00 =8

Thanks for sharing..

[CCC]

Do you have your "Living Will"? I would like to be in it Legend.

[legend]

My totals:

1998-20
1999-1
2000-418
And a recent price guide has them rising to 100 bucks after MS 65 condition.
I wouldn't pay that for one, though.
I have been very busy trying to get a fix on all the dies for the 2000, and Billy Crawford, the resident expert on wide AM's has far more ferreted out. He has some 18 pairs so far, and, frankly, I may never complete my study without his help, which he has generously offered. I wanted to publish, but my expertise is novice in correlating die pairs. That leaves me to wait for the knowledge of the real scarcity of ALL the wide AM's to be established, and a true price to emerge. These were a purchase for family heirlooms, and I see less than 1000 total being known (in MS-65) long-term, making them liable to appreciate.
Enormously.
This is fewer than almost any of the scarcest Lincolns, and when I started gathering these, I figured the wide AM's to be THE key coins of a complete set. Modern Rares, indeed.

[legend]

What is a living will?

Is that where you tell everyone how you want your stuff divvied up, only to have them hire lawyers when they find out it is all willed to my cat?

[RWBILLER]

You will find one - they come in spurts - found two tonight.
2000 is defnately the common one.
roger

[CCC]

Is that where you tell everyone how you want your stuff divvied up, only to have them hire lawyers when they find out it is all willed to my cat?

Living Will:
A living will usually covers specific directives as to the course of treatment that is to be taken by caregivers. In some cases a living will forbids treatment and sometimes also food and water, should the principal be unable to give informed consent ("individual health care instruction") due to incapacity. A living will can be very specific or very general. An example statement in a living will is: If I suffer an incurable, irreversible illness, disease, or condition and my attending physician determines that my condition is terminal, I direct that life-sustaining measures that would serve only to prolong my dying be withheld or discontinued.


Will:
You die. You have asset's assigned to your benificaries.

This is a coin forum. PM me.

[bnecker717]

so how much are these wide am's worth anyway? I have found 6 2000 wide am's and 1 1998 in about 3 weeks so far out of about 150,000 pennies. 1 of them is pretty ugly but the rest are nice and shiny. Have no idea how to grade them. But the current value of these would be much appreciated. Are they still declining in value too? Thanks, Brian

[legend]

Values of pennies are changeable.

When you look and see that a 1909 S-VDB is a couple thousand $$ in 65-67 grades, and then think, geez they made hundreds of thousands of them, and people hoarded as well. Makes you wonder. I do know that there are, at this writing, many more 2000 Wide AM to be discovered in mint bags. Lots of big dealers sit on bags and boxes or rolls for DECADES. They pass on the businesses to their heirs. At this writing, I have been watching for some time the numbers on the boards. On the LCR board, we have some 750 of the 2000 wide AM, many gem BU. I have 400 or so, and two other persons whose privacy I respect and will not name have some 100 or so a piece. Another collector in Illinois outbid me for another 100 from a seller I was negotiating with, so that makes almost 1000 I know of. This is nearly ten tears removed, and what is showing up is sometimes still pristene, witness yours. Some are less than BU, and they are the majority of the recent finds. If you graph the finds on a log scale where most GEM BU are found in the first days, weeks, and months, and the trickle sets in after years, then we are at an end to major finds, I assume.
If you sit down and consider ANY coin of less than 2000 known- go look them up, and you can start in the Lincoln early teens for instance, and you find this type of scarcity virtually nowhere else. Except in the 1999 Wide AM. I consider this the rarest of ALL Lincoln cents in GEM BU condition, when it all falls out. I expect the wide AM's to explode in value overnight, as it sets in on people. Everyone will be saying "Hey, I read on the Lincoln Cent Resource board that a member searched 150,000 pennies and found two 2000 Wide AM's" And the listener will respond "I had better get one soon"...
Same Same 1999 and 1998. They are keys. Especially, a 1999 is on EBAY for $400 right now. ?????????????.

And so far as the living will is concerned, I am already qualified to have an attorney declare me dain bamaged. Send a list of beneficiaries soon.