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Message:: [QUOTE="coinage 10, post: 187389, member: 6399"]1/20/2007 I really appreciate all the kind input. It’s great to finally succeed with the elusive ’70-S. I’ve been checking a friend’s huge Lincoln Cent collection as well as the numerous rolls I finally removed from a safe deposit box (my entire collection was in the safe deposit since 1978), and I removed it about nine months ago. Yes, I wasn’t sure, but I thought the coin to be a large date doubled die because of the low 7. I’d been inspecting hundreds of near-mint condition ’70-S’s to the point of utter frustration. A lot of the coins I’ve checked, had areas that looked right – but then they didn’t match up on the whole. (You can imagine why I was so doubtful.) atrox001, I’m a herpetologist of sorts (herpetology via biology). I’m wondering from the nature of your name and residence (Arizona) if you collect herps as well as coins. As you may be aware, Crotalus atrox is the Latin name for the Western Diamondback rattlesnake.  Of course there’s C. scutulatus found in your area as well. I make this analogy, because herpetologists have trouble telling the two species apart, unlike the 1970-S, which is heaps more difficult in my opinion.  Thanks again, and “p”, I wasn’t aware of a circulated small-date 70-s doubled die – I thought they were only proofs, and I was obviously mistaken. A.J.[/QUOTE]