1970 S..small or large date. 1922 D or no D help

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by bsowa1029, Dec 15, 2011.

  1. bsowa1029

    bsowa1029 Franklin Half Addict

    Here are two pennies I am having trouble determining exactly what they are. For both of them I'm leaning more towards the more common versions of the two, the large date for the '70 S and the mint marked '22.
    Anyways, here are a couple pictures. Hopefully you can all help me out here. Sorry about the image quality of the '22, the coin is just too worn to see much detail.
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  3. Shoewrecky

    Shoewrecky Coin Hoarder

    that 70-s looks like a LD to me..that 22, looks more like a 20-
     
  4. bsowa1029

    bsowa1029 Franklin Half Addict

    Im pretty sure the second one is a 22. You can't really tell in the picture, but in person I can make out the bottom edge of the second 2 and the top part of the curve.
     
  5. Shoewrecky

    Shoewrecky Coin Hoarder

    well if you see if a curve then it could also be an 8 or 9 too
     
  6. TheNoost

    TheNoost huldufolk

    I thought it was an 8.
     
  7. 10gary22

    10gary22 Junior Member

    The 1970 S is a large date.

    I beat this thread to death last year and finally invested in a 1970 S proof set with the small date cent. Look at the closure of the loop of the 9. Side by side you can see the 9 is very much more closed on the small date. Next, compared to the large date, the 7 actually looks higher than the 0. There is the pup of the weak lettering, but the easiest to spot is the 9. It's a tough find. I cannot tell you how many rolls I have gone through looking for one. Even old Whitman folders I have found that had a 70 S in the small date hole, were wrong.

    I cannot tell on the Wheat, sorry.


    gary
     
  8. rlm's cents

    rlm's cents Numismatist

    70-S is a large date. As for the other, I am not sure what it is, but I can make out enough to say that it is not a 1922- no "D" or weak "D".
     
  9. kookoox10

    kookoox10 ANA #3168546

    That older wheat cent looks too far gone to be correctly identifiable for sure.
     
  10. bsowa1029

    bsowa1029 Franklin Half Addict

    The edge on the bottom is straight across...like the bottom of a 2. There aren't any other numbers that have straight edges on the bottom, are there?
     
  11. bsowa1029

    bsowa1029 Franklin Half Addict

    Yeah I've been looking at it more and really is hard to tell
     
  12. quartertapper

    quartertapper Numismatist

    Yeah, that's a "low 7" 1970-S; or as it was always (incorrectly in my opinion) known "large date."

    The 192_ is so far gone, it's hard to tell even with the decent pics you provided. Looks like a good example to sell on ebay... where all 1922-Ds are "weak Ds."
     
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