1998 WAM D/P Lincoln Cent

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1998 WAM D/P Lincoln Cent

#1 Unread post by Jimmy06 »

Just posting this for the variety mental cases like me who may not know about this one.
I wont take a picture because its in a slab and doubt that my camera skills could capture the "D" outline very well.

An Interesting Variety. I picked up one of these a while back in MS65 condition.

1998 1c Type-2 WAM (Proof Style Reverse) w/"Phantom D" Mintmark. Some of the 1998 Ty-2 Rev. pieces that came in also exhibit the so-called "Phantom D" Mint Mark; slight traces of the Denver Mint Mark that were left on the 1998 Lincoln cent master hub, modified for use as a Philadelphia hub. The so-called "Phantom D" variety was created by the Mint by grinding the Denver Mint Mark off the master hub and then using it to produce a master die for Philadelphia cent die production. Traces of the D remained on the master hub and were transferred to the master die and then to working hubs and further on to working dies. In general, the "Phantom D" wore off the tooling in short order and thus only shows on coins produced from earlier stages of the Philadelphia cent tooling.

Ken Potter might still have these coins.
http://koinpro.tripod.com/ErrorVarietyList.htm
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Re: 1998 WAM D/P Lincoln Cent

#2 Unread post by Daniel »

Interesting and thanks for posting. I didn't know of phantom mint mark WAM's.
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