1970-S Large Or Small Date?

Good "point" - LOL.

I remember you mentioning that before, and you're right. It also points more toward the 7 than mintmark like the Large date does also.

Like Scooby says, once you see the small date,it is pretty easy, but finding one is a different story. I have found 3 in about 40 years..and two of them were found in the early 70's when I first learned about the.

morgansdad, that's how I got my proof SD....$3 on ebay...pics were bad so I just though what the heck.

I'm not discouraged. I know I'll find one eventually. By the way. Went to a small shop in town that buys and sells jewelry, gold, silver, and coins. Bought 12 coins, and 4 tokens for thirty dollars. In that was a 1909 wheat(VG), 1909 VDB wheat(MS-60-MS-63), and an 1898 Great Britain Half Penny (in what I think is XF-Unc condition). I'm not that great at grading, but I'm getting better.

Also bought a token that has me perplexed. It says on the Obverse, United States Mint/First steam coinage/ March 23/ 1856 The reverse just has a "Liberty Cap" with rays.

If anyone wants me to, I'll post pics. Maybe someone can verify my grading or knows something about the token?

Hey coop! What this guy had this time around was a collection that was mostly loose, some carded 2x2s and some just in bags. An older gentleman had brought them in a few days ago. The owner of the shop doesn't know much about coins, and says he didn't go through all of them with his 1971 edition coin book. The two 1909's were in a lone bag together. I bought both for two bucks.

His way of grading is to say that all are VG. Mostly he looks at the key dates. I actually helped him out with a few Half Dimes that were in a group of about thirty. If I wasn't an honest guy, I could have gotten a nice deal on one worth $100.00!

That and I'm afraid of CARMA!

That would be 1836, not 1856. It sounds similar to a token that was struck to commemorate the first steam press.

One token that was printed says, "United States Mint, First Steam Coinage, Feb. 22, 1836." According to Director Patterson's report, however, March 23 is the correct date. Perhaps some coins were printed in advance, or February 22 was the date planned for the first printing. It also may have be chosen to coincide with George Washington's birthday, but delay or postponement ensued and the coining press wasn't operated until March 23. The February 22 coins were never recalled.

http://fi.edu/pieces/knox/index.html

I learned that this is a reproduction made around 1967. The size of 1 and 1/16 inch gave it away. Oh well.