I recently purchased both 1960 large date and small date sets. I was unable to find anything that even explained the difference, let alone illustrations of them. For your information, I have included scans of my coins including closeups of the two date varieties. It's pretty obvious when you focus on the stem of the "6". When you look at them side-by-side the difference is obvious. The striations on the images are from the flat-pack plastic. However, the large date coin does have some schmutz around the 6. Don't know how that got in there. The coins are still sealed in plastic.
I'm new to the forum. I didn't find any of the previous discussions. Can you point me to some of them?
IIRC one way to tell the SM and LD is to look at the tail of the 6....as you can see one is longer and more pointed---one is short and kindof cut off.... Speedy
My grandfather saved these sets for me and when he passed on I was looking at the two sets thinking... ummm... which one is which? I guess my eyesaren't as good as they used to be but it wasn't obvious to me. Have to look close heh.
OK - here's some info from previous discussions - Link 1 Link 2 And here's some info on the 1970 large/small dates - Link 3
Also as has been noted many times try coppercoins.com for information on Lincoln Cents. Also, the guy that runs that web site will answer any questions you may not be able to find out anywhere else. However, you will ususally get an answer to your questions right here.
Yes. I thought this might be artifact from the scanner, but I confirmed it with a direct under a microscope. Does anyone know if this degree of doubling is worth anything extra?
How can you tell the difference between mechanical and true doubling? Does this have to do with the fact that proof coins are always struck twice in production?
No. it has nothing to do with Proof coins being struck twice. The info you can find at the following links will help explain it better than I can. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3
