i put all my nice copper coins aside and look at them. I was look at these 2 1974 p Lincoln cents and I was going to ask if the 74 in the date was indeed a class VI. although I would like to bring attention to the bottom left of the 1. the last pic was suppose to be a comparison photo but when I was photographing looked kind of funny at the 9 position? any advice to help with my learning is appreciated.
Those '74 Large Date's are tricky. If you look through my posts, I asked the same question about a '74 LD a couple of months ago. Some of them look like winners.
would that be what a class VI looks like? or similar? and then I was wondering why only does the 74 look big to me?
1974 large dates have probably fooled us all at some point. Even attributors have listed one as class VI and then later delisted it after determining it to be normal. The design of the large date really resembles the extra thickness of the date that we normally see as class VI on other dates.
Definitely the right idea in looking for that distorted extra thickness. Unfortunately, the 74 large dates were just designed that way. When you throw in other factors such as die deterioration, circulation wear, etc. they can get really tricky.
For the Philly mint, there are only a couple of minor ones reported. For Class VI doubled dies in general, there is not as much demand because there is not the flashy separation. The exceptions to this would be those listed in the Cherry Picker's Guide such as the 1943P DDO001.
