So a coin has a year of a large date and a small date. Is there some reason the dye was made different or an accident? The year prior to this occurring is it usually one version of the large or small. After the year of the large and small which is usually continued. I have spent the last two hours trying to answer this and no luck at all. I will appreciate any and all help answering this.
If you go to lincolncentresource.com and read the section there on Large and Small dates that it will help you. The info on the 1974 production is especially clear about how and why they happen at all. There isn’t much info about the incidence happening before a particular year or after a particular year. Hope this helps…imo…Spark
First, dye is what you would do change the color of clothes or your hair. Die is what coins are minted with. More than one die is used I making any type of coin. There are numerous coin presses and each have there own die. Then the dies are changed when they wear out. Something happens at the mint which causes a die to be slightly different than it was meant to be. Now you have small and large dates for a given year.
