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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2678016, member: 77413&quot;]The San Francisco mint produced two main varieties in 1970. There are a lot of articles on this site and others about identifying the large date and small date versions. I even posted some pictures in post <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-201#post-2587261" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-201#post-2587261">#4014.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I like to think of the &quot;large date&quot; as having a dropped 7. Looking at the level of the bottom of the 7 seems like the simplest diagnostic. If it is even with the 0, it is small. If halfway between the bottom of the 9 and the 0, it is large (or dropped).</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t quite bring myself to spend around $70 for a small date proof. I&#039;d rather have a nice red-brown cent from the 20&#039;s for the money.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>1970 Large Date Proof</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]597897[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>1970 Business strikes</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]597898[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]597899[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Large Date</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]597900[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Small Date</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]597901[/ATTACH] </b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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