If you couldn't tell already, I looove finding them woody pennies. Even though they are pretty common, I still love em. Got me an alright condition small date, 1960 D, with die chips on the reverse. You can find the die chips on the edge of the building, on your right side, right in between the pillars and the roof (on the edge) and you can find another die chip right under the T in cent (below the left cross bar) checked for ddo. Nothing that I can see. But I am happy I am starting to wonder if this is the reason why the govornmemt decided to use zinc instead of copper platchets. Because I'm seeing so much improper alloy mix pennies showing up in 1980s, three years later they change metals. Hmmmm might not be entirely the whole reason why they did it, but it could have broke the camels back. ( I realize this is most likely not fact, but it makes sense to me!) and another thing I thought of, did the mint employees just get lazy because they knew of the upcoming changes/were getting trained on one thing (Training on zinc plating process, and forgetting standard practice and procedure? I'm trying to think of why it all of a sudden starting happening a lot in the 1980s. These are all the reasons I could come up with. Don't know if there is anyone who has read more on why it started happening a lot in the 80's? Would love to read more about that subject. Anyways enjoy. and happy hunting. If you look closely at the CA in America at the bottom, i believe that's where the chip came from. Not sure if that's true (that you can sometimes find where die chips occurred, but my mind seems think it could be. Sometimes I look at die chips and I really can't tell where it came from, and they are massive)
Only the 1960 Philly small date has value. The 60-D is 1 cent. They probably switched from copper to zinc because of the cost.
Yeah I know. lol still get excited because the small dates are still harder to find. I usually only find large dates. You by chance know what came first? The small date or the large date?
I see a few nicer 1960 small date Denver go for a dollar or two. They aren't exactly entirely worthless. https://www.mountvernoncoinco.com/p...00wJqyCZguOnoXije7gMRXJcv_j3ax2UaAoYsEALw_wcB
You should keep your coins separate. Meaning creating different threads. One for the Woody and another for the Small Date.
Funny thing, I did this so you guys wouldn't get mad for posting coin after coin. I guess I'll do that next time. I like to post it like "here's my finds for today" but if this method is frowned upon, I won't do it anymore
I can understand your frustration. Tough crowd here. Just roll with it and let it go without creating confrontation. Just the way it is.
