In the early to mid 1960s when I started collecting Lincoln cents from circulation, the small and large date varieties were the only varieties then known of the 1960 cents. I managed to accumulate 2 ½ rolls from circulation, and stored them away and concentrated on collecting other series, only paying attention to my Lincoln set when updating with each new year issue. Recently, after finding out about the other 1960 cent varieties discovered in the years since I finished my collection, I searched through those plastic tubes of 1960-D small dates hoping to find the valuable 1960 D/D small over large date variety. No luck with that coin, but I began to notice several cents with the D mint mark in different positions relative to the date. As seen here, one (on the left) has the D mint mark up close and centered under the date; on the other (right) the D appears to be very slightly to the right of center and further down from the date. Initially thinking of these as “high D” and “low D” coins but finding no listings under these terms, I suspect these are actually the small date low nine (on left) and high nine (on right) varieties? Thanks for your help. Greg M.
Mint Marks were hand-punched back in those times and they can/do vary quite a lot. This does not make them a Variety of a coin. There are a lot of varieties of RPMs for this year. http://www.varietyvista.com/02b LC RPMs Vol 2/RPMs 1960D (1-60).htm MMs were hand-punched up until the early 1990's.
Thanks, Alurid - Altho collecting off and on from about 1962, I was dormant at the time varieties were becoming popular so never went beyond the basic "one coin of each date and mint mark" style of collecting, so I am still wet behind the ears when it comes to any type of variety or error determination, and your reply helps me understand variety collecting.
