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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 697943, member: 16510&quot;]<b>The 70-S smdt is pretty easy just look</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;The 70-S smdt is pretty easy just look for the last part of &quot;Liberty&quot; washed out and very weak also the &quot;0&quot; in 70 on the lgdt. has a little bulb on top of it - easy to see if you turn the coin as if you are looking south to north and the high place on the &quot;0&quot; will be easy to see.</p><p>If you are looking thru. circ. stuff or tubed BU rolls, even mint sets you will rairly ever come across it, does not hurt to look but I have never found one so don&#039;t expect to much.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 82&#039;s are another matter, I can tell them all but I have looked at 10,000&#039;s of them.&nbsp; Large and small date are easy, very noticable but the composition change for zinc is that the zinc ones will weigh less, just a tad but enough for any gram scale to tell you.&nbsp; They also sound different when dropped on a hard surface.&nbsp; The easiest way (and I got this from here) is make a mini scale using a round rod and a popcycle stick, get a known copper and then on the other end put you cent in question.&nbsp; I just if unknown put them on the scale, on mine the copper will show 3 grams the zinc 2.5.</p><p>Hope this helps,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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