1970-P LMC Floating Roof

Would you have a guess as to percentage of total ?

Dan

Very common for 1969 and 1970 from Denver and San Francisco mints across multiple dies. Philadelphia mint has fewer die examples this extreme. No premium I can think of, but if you don't mind, I'm saving this die pair images nonetheless for future reference. Thanks, Doug.

I've got one like this too! and some 61-69 ,happy hunting

When I moved into my current home, I put a 4" round 4 front long PVC pipe with a cap on it in the corner behind my entrance door. Every time I had a Lincoln Cent, I would drop it into the tube. That was 2001, well 2 months ago that tube was finally full of Lincoln cents. So for the past 2 months I have been going through the Lincoln cents one at a time. This is the second 1970 LMC with a floating roof that I have found so far and I'm about half way through the tube. I estimate between 10,000 and 12,000 one cent coins. As expected the bottom of the tube of course has the coins from the longest time past, which ended up on top of the coins in the paint bucket I poured them into. The bucket was nearly full. It is amazing how many near Uncirculated cents I have found from the 80's and 90's, and even some further back.
I've found Many Wheat Cents. A few back to the 30's. I never checked the coins when I dropped them into the tube. It has really been a blast going through these.

Dan

Die polishing removing clashes remove this area if polished several times or isolated on one polishing:

Note the date affects that area.

The should creates the shoulder area affect this side. Abrasion to the die removes these mid devices leaving the deeper devices, the roof, building and outside devices. Just the shallow and mid devices are removed. (Initials, Statue and roof uprights) A common polishing issue that created a craze for these. They were at one time slabbed, and give FS-901 numbers, but they quit because they were not from one die, but on all that were over worked. The stopped slabbing them at PCGS. If you look at the 1970-S small dates, on PCGS, they all have the missing area in question on the thread. But no mention of this on the grading.