1992 Penny " Close AM "

[railroad-migration]

I have a 1992 Penny. All reverse is doubled. The spreads of the "A" and "M" touch at the bottom of the A and M legs. It also has a High "FG" and a Low "FG".

 

Would this be considered a " Close AM ".

[halfpint]

 

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[Kurtdog]

I've never seen one before with the attributes you've described. Since you didn't post any pics, I've still never seen one.

[coinman_23885]

The close AM has nothing to do with doubling on the letters, but refers to the placement and spacing of the letters "A" and "M" in America on the reverse. The coin is believed to have been struck as an experimental piece or a trial strike to determine how the new reverse would look that was implemented in 1993 (note this was coin was not struck from proof dies like some of the later date wide AM varieties).

[johnny9434]

welcome to the forums railroad

[Coincrazed74]

Welcome railroad! Hope ya learn a lot here!

[Chris1976]

mr. jingles?

[Conder101]

The coin is believed to have been struck as an experimental piece or a trial strike to determine how the new reverse would look that was implemented in 1993

Any idea why they think it is an experimental piece? I can understand that it isn't from a proof die because the proofs at the time were also wide AM, but why can't it be from a misdirected 1993 die that was in production near the end of 1992? Toward the end of the year they start making a stockpile of dies for the coming year, and often striking a stockpile of coins as well. If both die types were in use the possibility that an almost indistinguishable 1993 rev could have been used in 1992 by mistake very easily.

[railroad-migration]

Sorry about picture. I'm new here. Please see attached picture and advise what you think. Tried to add picture. If not in here, someone please advise how to attach picture. Thanks

[railroad-migration]

How do you add a picture to a message ?

[CyberspaceVoid]

Railroad,

 

To post a picture you need to first load it into some third party site such as Flikr.com or Photobucket.com. Then all you do is grab address of the photo from that site and paste it into the third icon from the left (enter an image) seen in the "Full Reply Screen" option here. Not hard to do once you find the correct puttons to push.

[railroad-migration]

Thanks !!

[railroad-migration]

 

Still trying to add picture. Hope this does it. One other attribute of the coin: From the base of the Memorial - Seems to have a second layer. The second "FG" is at a 45% angle. Let me know. Thanks

[coinman_23885]

Any idea why they think it is an experimental piece?

 

To be honest, I am not sure how error specialists arrived at this conclusion over your highly possible alternative. In fact, I'm guessing that it is all based on speculation. Regardless, the coins appear to garner a very nice premium.

[railroad-migration]

I had trouble inserting picture. 1st time. Can you actually see the attached picture. Let me know. Thanks !!

[railroad-migration]

Look at my last post. I tried to insert picture. If it's there, review and advise. Thanks !!

 

You're absolutely right:

 

You can't know what you see until you see what you know.

 

Thanks again.

[coinman_23885]

The image doesn't show.

[coinman_23885]

It appears that you linked the entire album rather than the individual coin. I did, however, type the URL in and I found the image. The penny is much too small for me to be able to do anything. Can you zoom in and crop out the extra white space?