My wife's grandmother was recently cleaning out her closet, and sent to me the coins she had. A few Kennedies from the late '60s, a few circulated silver Washingtons and Roosevelts, and two sandwich bags full of wheat cents. No rare dates. But here's my question. She also sent me a roll of 1970s cents (I'm guessing a trip to San Francisco was a vacation that year). I looked at my ANA Grading guide and my 2006 Red Book (don't have the '07 yet), and I can't tell the difference between the high date and low date. What exactly am I looking for? And if anybody says one date is high and the other is low...
the high date 7 has a top serrif the is about even with the top of the '0' in the date, the low date 7 is well below the '0'
Seems like we hit this topic once a month... http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=14389&highlight=1970+small+date
That 70S thing is getting repeated and for good reason. I too have sat with the Red Book, the book Looking Through Lincolns and the coppercoins web site at the difference in that coin. I've got about 10 rolls of the 70S cents and think I'd go blind before I can tell the difference. There is even proofs of both the large and small. I've got them in 10 sets of Lincolns and even when they are next to each other I have trouble seeing the differences. The 2 large photos in Chuck's book makes it somewhat easier, but the actual coin needs an electron microscope. My question is who is the nut that first found out that tiny little difference and you would think they would have something better to do with their life than find stuff like that.
