Is This A 1970-S Small Lincoln Cent?

Thanks to all, this was very cool

The winner here is jewellge; I think I was just stating the obvious.
Jbuck deserves another mention for his ingenious method to encode Greek characters.

I am sometimes amazed that in some circumstances people do not trust in their own judgement, and need or look to others for the "answer" they knew all along, and when they "hear " from some one else and that opinion is the same with their own original, then they are happy??

And if I didn't read all the way to the end of these posts I would have thought that you were incredible.

jewellge nice find. I'm glad all eyes where on this thread. So this SD didn't fall back into the discard coin bucket .

Yes, of course the coin in question is certainly a small date. Nice find!

Now... tell me how can those two pics that started the thread possibly be from the same coin? There's no way, in my opinion.

The first pic seems -- almost undeniably -- to be large date. Marks on it are not present in the second pic.

All I can say here is that obviously the first pic is the same coin, where many of the same details are present under careful scrutiny.

I think my pics from page 1 establish it's the same coin--and a small date at that. But I also think jewellge knew that from the start.

I could also add here that photos do not precisely describe physical objects, but only record light reflected off an object. It may sound strange put that way, but it's true. That's one way to account for the apparent discrepancy between 2 photos. Other factors include the data collector (scanner, camera), as well as human perception--which is hardly foolproof and very interpretive. When using photos for analysis, it's important to find ways to reduce interpretive error--that's a discipline one learns. That's something I've learned to a degree from a few photoanalysis projects.