Can Anyone Tell Me What Is Wrong With This 1970 S Penny

Mike, go back and look the high relief profile of the Memorial cent coins - you will see that almost have a weaker strike in this area, it was first thought that it was just a Grease Filled Die, but after seeing a ton of these all in the same area, it was determined that is was the obverse design of the bust. Now, yes, some could be greasers too, but I noticed that, by looking at the word 'States', if the bottom half of the word is weak, and the vert tippy top of the word is strong, then the it not a Greaser - you see the top of States are aligned with the area on the obverse where the bust stops and the there is a small gap of the flat fields before the it rolls up to the rim.

Let me see if I can find a better example of this.

A TAPERED planchet would weigh less. The weakness is on the right side of the coin. And yes it has the usual weakness in the STATES. Might be a tilted die

To ChristianL2004,

Thank You for the Posted Extra pictures.

John, What I am having problems with is IF the TILTED die was the Culprit, A, How does one explain whats going on above the IN GOD WE TRUST Motto.?

B, IF A tilted die was the Culprit, Why would the Right side of the Reverse Letters, " AMERICA " be so Thick, or Well Flattened MORE than the Left side of the Reverse. ?

Wouldn't a Strong Strike make AMERICA Letters So Flattened, ?

I'm not seeing anything above the motto. On a tilted die one side of the coin will be struck up nice and 180 degrees out will be weak. The strong side is the left side of the coin. The weakness starts out at RUST and goes around to the 0. That corresponds to the NT around to AMERICA on the reverse. The usual weak strike of the STATES OF makes AMERICA even more weak. Silvio, more of a die adjustment error.

It's definitely not a greater as a grease strike wouldn't affect the rims. Not sure if it's a tapered planchet or perhaps PMD.

I wouldn't send it for a grade until you know what's actually causing it and if it's numismatically significant. I don't think it's a Greaser, as I said, because a Greaser wouldn't affect the rims, so it is intriguing. But grading is like $50 for error attribution, and you want to make sure the coin is valuable enough to justify that before sending it in (and you should get an expert opinion like Mike Diamond's to send in with it so they don't screw up the error designation as TPGs so often do).

As stated above, not worth slabbing. It's more of a nice find, and not a great find. I'd put it in a 2x2. But that's me I'm a collector. Eric, they're all over ebay, just if you want to pay for them.