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1970 50 Cents Slanted '7' Variety Curiousity

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 Posted 05/09/2026  03:58 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add JustRandomCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I'm calling coin 1 a slanted variety, but what has got me stumped is the other numbers.

I have two 1970 50c coins in the photos for comparison, coin 2 is not a slanted variety.

Ive done them double exposure so the two images are layered on top of each other, with the top image made transparent (faded) so both are visible at once.

In one photo I matched the 1's, the next I matched the 9's then the 7's, finally the 0's.

And they don't match at all, suprisingly the 0's made the dates clash the most, I did slant the top photo slightly I match the 7's and it meshed them the best.

I got two images from a website comparing the difference between the variety and non variety and did the same double exposure to them to see if it's just how if that just how it goes with dates, but they matched pretty good, just the 7 was slanted as expected.

So my two coins I was comparing to learn with, they say slanted 7? More like the entire date is mismatched.

1945 penny for your thoughts.

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 Posted 05/11/2026  3:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JustRandomCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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I would agree that your coin 1 is the "tilted 7" variety.

And yes, I would agree that the curvature of the entire date is different between the two varieties; it's called "tilted 7" because the "tilt" of the 7 - so that the top beam of the 7 no longer points at the top of the 9 - is the most obvious way of distinguishing the two.

I'm not really seeing much of a difference between your "tilted 7" and the one from the reference website, though. Not enough to be considered a separate variety, anyhow.
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Very interesting. I have two of these, I need to examine them.
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