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Both are LD. I am not sure where I went wrong. I looked at them under 30x magnification closely comparing them against blow ups here of small date 1970S coins... but I blew it somewhere. Compared to my other seven '70S's, these looked to have the curl of the 9 pointing more down than up and the 7 looked to be higher. I guess my eyes aren't that good for all this.  Les |
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I mainly look at the bottom of the 7, on the small date it's almost level with the bottom of the 0. On the large date it's really long. The best reference IMO is to use a proof 70 small S. You can easily see how the design is supposted to look. Save this picture and use it for reference.  |
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Thanks BadThad! That helps a lot, really! I was feeling pretty discouraged not being able to see a difference, but photo you posted helped a lot. That seven is very short! Les  |
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 Nice picture for reference BadThad. merclover: I used to have a very difficult time with the 70 s small date as well until I purchased a real one. Then it became obvious and I don't need pictures for reference anymore. The 7's on your coins are too low, like Thad stated the bottom needs to be almost level with the bottom of the 0. Also I used to think many that I had were small dates because of the curled 9, but if you see the real small date it is much more curled. BadThad's picture is a nice example to compare your coins to. or you can use this link that I used when I started: http://www.lincolncentresource.com/...alldate.html |
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Or you can just post pictures here and we will tell you if you have the small date or not  |
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murrellington, thanks for the encouragement! I looked on ebay and it appears that a lot of the '70-S small date offerings really are not small date. Buyer beware. Thanks again guys! Les |
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True about ebay and the small dates. There was a thread about this not too long ago. A lot of people are selling large dates as smaall dates whether intentional or not. So yes, definitely buyer beware. |
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Nice find Les! If that is finally your first one, you must be from the west coast like me. lol. |
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Never found one either, had to buy mine...or get it in trade (cant remember). From SoCal.
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Nice find Les! If that is finally your first one, you must be from the west coast like me. lol No, I'm from Ohio... I looked at a lot of 1998-99-00 pennies looking for this WAM. Pulled it from my third bank box of pennies. No mistaken the WAMs... usually you see nothing but all those "A"s and "M"s nearly touching each other... it can't pretty boring, but then WHAM! There it is! No mistaking the wide gap!  Les |
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I finished another box today, and it's good.
wheats: 11 pieces. earliest one is a 1910 (my new record), then 1925, 1926D, and some later ones.
total copper: 520, or 20.8%. This is already the best box I've ever done!
I have already gone through like 30000 pennies now... but still no trace of WAMs. I really want to find one, but since I'm in southwest, there are usually less than 50 1998-2000P pennies per box.
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