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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 132630, member: 68"]"Where did you get this info from? Not saying you're wrong but this isn't my first rodeo. I've been doing this for a long time and every 70 small date I've ever seen....100% of them...exhibited a weakly struck liberty. I'd be very interested to learn something new, here."</p><p><br /></p><p>A buddy traded me the '70-S Lincolns from about 1,000 mint sets because I was trying to put together some rolls of the S/S coin many years back. (Got 3 rolls by the way). These were supposed to have had all the small dates removed so I wasn't really looking for them but after getting most of the way through I found one and then two more. It took a while to figure out what were different with these but then I noticed that they all had a pretty sharp LIBERTY. The letters were a little thinner but they stood up about as high as any other large date. I did eventually learn that the guy who separated these looked at the strenght of the motto. There should have been about 100 small dates in this batch and he missed three. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ironically, while these coins were generally well struck none were nice and they all had other problems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 132630, member: 68"]"Where did you get this info from? Not saying you're wrong but this isn't my first rodeo. I've been doing this for a long time and every 70 small date I've ever seen....100% of them...exhibited a weakly struck liberty. I'd be very interested to learn something new, here." A buddy traded me the '70-S Lincolns from about 1,000 mint sets because I was trying to put together some rolls of the S/S coin many years back. (Got 3 rolls by the way). These were supposed to have had all the small dates removed so I wasn't really looking for them but after getting most of the way through I found one and then two more. It took a while to figure out what were different with these but then I noticed that they all had a pretty sharp LIBERTY. The letters were a little thinner but they stood up about as high as any other large date. I did eventually learn that the guy who separated these looked at the strenght of the motto. There should have been about 100 small dates in this batch and he missed three. Ironically, while these coins were generally well struck none were nice and they all had other problems.[/QUOTE]
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