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Message:: [QUOTE="quarter-back, post: 1967477, member: 47022"]You can use diagnostics to narrow it down quite a bit.  Unless they are worn to barely recognizable as SLQs, the 1916, 1917, 1917D and 1917S usually are identifiable without dates. Many of the 1917-1924 type 2's can be dated from only a fragment of the date since terminal 7's, 8's and 9's can only be from the teens, and 0's, 1's, 3's and 4's can only be from the twenties.  You can generally separate pre- and post-1925's, as well.  Some of the 1928's have a unique mintmark.  So even without doing anything heroic, you might get some useful info. BTW, you might get a few hundred dollars for a 1916 even without the date.  In fact, I think you even can get them slabbed. So study up before you try pulling up dates.[/QUOTE]