1970 S sm/lg date how to tell?

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  1. shy

    shy Member

    image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg I am not seeing the difference between sm and lg date it seems to be such a minute variation that determines which.... Is there a cheat or a trick ... It's literally driving me nuts . I'm obsessed with figuring this out and I have been up all night ... Lol.. I feel like a hungover college kid who just tried cramming for an exam only to fall asleep during the testing ... Right after I wrote my name
    Help please
     
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  4. shy

    shy Member

    Thank you soooo much ... The conundrum has been solved. I seriously should have just posted and asked here first and avoided this headache .. Lol
     
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  5. coop

    coop Senior Member

    The first thing I look for on these is the location of the bottom of the 7. If it looks below the 1 & 0 is is a large date:
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    There are more diagnostics for the small date:
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    Ans COOP has such wonderful pictures again.
     
  7. KurtS

    KurtS Die variety collector

    The 70-S small date is very tough to find in circulation, especially now. Before people started hoarding copper, the regular 70-S was very common in rolls on the west coast. I must have looked for 10+ years without finding a single one. They're much easier to find in 1970 mint/proof sets--where I have found all of mine.
     
  8. desertgem

    desertgem Senior Errer Collecktor

    I can agree with Kurt on that, I went through an original bag of 70-S cents a few years ago ( thread here someplace) and 5000 Large dates, 0 small dates :( I had to eventually buy one myself.
     
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  9. KurtS

    KurtS Die variety collector

    Yeah...it can be a practice in frustration. I also suspect those few SDs in circulation actually came from mint sets.
     
  10. 19Lyds

    19Lyds Member of the United States of Confusion

    I try to remember that little doodah in the nine as: If it points to the Mint Mark, then its a Large Date. If it points to the 7, then its a small date.

    The shape is different, as pointed out, with the small date 9, coming to a noticeable point.

    1970-S Proof Set 2015-003c.JPG
     
  11. bstod

    bstod Member

    Is this the same for the 1982 large and small dates?
     
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