Is this a small date or large date penny?

Hello everyone! I need your help with identifying the 1970's large date & small date pennies. I finally figured out the 1982 large dates & small dates but the 1970's I just don't see a difference.

I watched the video's and it looks easy enough but it's the 9 that confuses me not sure how to tell. So having said this if I can get your answer on this 1970's penny I might be able to take it from here. My opinion is that this penny is the large date right?

Thanks!

 

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http://www.lincolncentresource.com/smalldates/smalldates.html

 

Large date

 

Large date. The top of the 7 is lower than the 9 and 0.

 

I find the "weak LIBERTY" to be the best, easiest to see quickly, diagnostic.

 

Even on lower grade coins with a lot of wear?

 

here's a good pic to determine that... large date.

 

The bottom of the 9 in the small date is pointy, the bottom of the 9 in the large date is blunt.

 

Great thanks everyone!

 

Thank you!

 

Bookmark that site. It's a great resource.

 

Trying not to be a jerk about it, but I'm sitting here wondering why I would ever even care about looking at one that is a "lower grade coin with a lot of wear". Sorry, that's just the way I am. If it's not AU or MS, chances are I'm not looking at it. Picking through severely circulated pocket change is NOT my idea of this hobby. The Great Depression is my "line in the sand". Anything newer than the mid 1930's needs to be fully MS or it isn't going to be in my collection. Only big-time popular varieties excepted, like some of the more obvious doubled die varieties.

 

Well, if you are looking at fully MS coins, you're not finding them in change. You're finding them in slabs, already attributed. No need for diagnostics.

The OP obviously has a circulated coin he is looking at. Is your diagnostic applicable? That was the gist of my question. I don't give a dog turd about what you collect. Not to be a jerk about it.

 

If you can afford to be an elitist, then go for it. Not everyone can do that, particularly beginners who may one day have the means to buy your elite collection from your heirs.

 

No, actually you could not be more wrong here if it were your goal. There are MANY 1970-S cents (including small dates) that are NEITHER circulated NOR "in slabs, already attributed". Ever hear of a little thing called "solid date BU rolls"? I have. I find virtually ALL my varieties, including several 1970-S small dates that have graded ABOVE MS65RD, by precisely this method. In fact, I have maybe 150 rolls of solid date BU rolls of various coins for which there are known varieties that I have yet to get around to searching them.

Corgi, you need to expand your horizons. You don't need to resort to searching junk rolls.

 

See my reply one post up.

 

Like I said, you're not finding them in change. You're finding them in rolls of uncirculated coins. The point of my question was to point out that your diagnostic is not reliable for circulated coins like the OP's. Collect what you want and don't impune what I want to collect. edited

 

It's not I who impugns a collection based on circulation finds. It's a neat enough pastime. But the "market" at large has been denigrating such collections for many decades.

 

I won't criticize for your preferences. But neither should you imply criticism for the preferences of other coin collectors. The fact that a coin has been circulated and widely holds appeal for the romanticists and historians in this field.

 

Thanks green 18, thats the best link I've seen yet on small dates