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A friend from church asked me to go through several rolls of BU 1970-S Lincoln Cents for him to search for small dates. He said his old eyes couldn't take it. His son's wife inherited quite a few coins and he's selling them for her. I went through about 150 coins and was quite surprised to find six small small dates. Most of them are baggy, but two are pretty nice.  Paul Bulgerin
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02/23/2015 12:57 pm
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Can you do a pic of each coin so we can see the date clearer.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Wow Paul, Nice..  Yeah your pics are somewhat small but, the tops of the dates look even- I would like to see individual photos too. |
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I'll see if I have time to get some photos before I return the coins to my friend.
He gave me a sheet that shows the differences between a large date and small date. and I followed that as I examined the coins.
All of these appear to have the 970 at the same level, the rounded 9 in the date and the weakly struck LIBERTY.
Paul Bulgerin
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It's difficult to make an absolutely positive determination from this image, but they all look good to me. Another indication is a horizontal line in the bend of the 7 that appears on Large Dates, but not Small Dates. I would love to find BU 70 S Small Dates 6 at a time. It would make completing my roll a much easier task. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Here are some better photos of the 1970-S Small Dates. All of them seem to me to have the correct alignment of the 970 in the date, the rounded end of the 9 in the date and the weakly struck LIBERTY. My friend was thrilled to hear about the finds. After these finds I dug out my role of 1970-S Lincolns that I purchased back in 1971 and checked them. Nothing.       Paul Bulgerin
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice.
I've never really looked for this variety. I've saved all the coppers I've come across in the past few years in a big jar, so maybe one cold winter's day I'll start going through all of them and looking for varieties.
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Cool. These are pretty tough in rolls. Varieties run in batches which is why you found so many.
I'd guess 90% of the sm dts come from mint sets but this is hard to know. About 10.1% of mint set coins are sm dt.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice, they all look high AU besides.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice group! Weak "LIBERTY" which is the only way they come. Very cool.
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Very nice! |
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Nice find!
Do any of you know why the 's' is so much lower on some 1970's than others? Some are close to the date, while others are significantly lower.
gshobar
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Bedrock of the Community
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Because the mintmark was punched into each individual die by hand, so the placement varies with every die.
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Valued Member
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Wow! That's so interesting! I never new that. Every time I looked at 70s's, I always thought the s placement somehow affected whether or not it was a sd or ld. I could never figure it out. Thank you so much! Do you know if their are any placements worth more (worth more for low placement vs high, for example)? Thanks!
gshobar
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Bedrock of the Community
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Fantastic find. I've got several rolls of 1970S Cents and none are like those and none are the small date.
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