Was there small and large dates for this year ? I have 4 coin’s in photo on left with dates that look fatter. The one on the right looks much smaller. Just thought it was strange . Hope everyone has a great weekend
Looks like there was only one ODV (10) for that year, so you might be seeing the difference between die stages or perhaps circulation wear made on appear thicker. Have a look at the whole obverse and determine you think it's a die stage difference. That would be my bet.
One would need to research how many obv.and rev. Dies were used that year for production. Then do the attribution of the coin to link it. Depending on the mintages the number of dies used could be high or low...with 185,262,000 minted my guess there were a lot of obv. Dies used.
I would think a worn die and circulation wear and tear would do that to the devices. Aside from the date, how do the other devices look?
Yup, flattened by life...sigh...like a lot of us Copper is soft and direct force would cause the metal to deform. See how all of the digits are flattened.
The coin on the right does not show as much wear as the left coin. The left coin has a fatter date due to wear.
You know almost all coin related stuff But I do think your more deeper then just coins. What is my (babe ruth) favorite single digit number?
