How To Tell Large Date From Small Date

This is probably one of the hardest things to explain but I'll try. The six on the 1960 Lincoln has two ends, the top end where you would start if you were to draw a 6 with a pencil. And the bottom end, where the pencil would stop if you were drawing a 6. The bottom end point is not closed on the cent. You have to visualize a vertical line extending upwards from the bottom end point towards the top end point. On the small date the two ends will be nearly, *not quite* aligned with each other. But on the large date the top end point will extend well past the line.

I don't know what the new RedBook has in it but they usually have a photo of the small date/large date. It would be a lot easyier to understand this by looking at that photo.

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That forum specializes in Lincoln Cents. The person that runs that web site has written two books on just that coin. On his web site and in his books all such things are explained with great detail. I have both his books and they are great. The person that runs that web site recently announced he is getting close to taking 10,000 photos of Lincoln Cents.