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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 8165919, member: 13307&quot;]Good evening everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>Visited a new LCS today and picked up a few 1968-1970 mint sets.&nbsp; Not a huge batch, about 20 total, but I was very happy with the results.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>No Small Dates, no RPMs, but I did find a couple really interesting pieces:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>1968 S Jefferson Nickel</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center">There were actually quite a few somewhat prooflike Jefferson Nickels in this batch (although I doubt any would garner a TPG PL designation, so no matter) - but I did find this piece with Full Steps (although to be completely honest, it has a very light line crossing the steps horizontally under the third column.)&nbsp; </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Due to the PL nature of the fields, my camera doesn&#039;t seem to want to focus properly (either that or maybe I&#039;m going blind now haha) so imaging the steps properly was a huge struggle for me tonight.&nbsp; I might give it another shot tomorrow.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Either way, it&#039;s got the most steps I&#039;ve ever seen on a 68S.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1425838[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1425837[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1425836[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>That was a pretty fun find, but the real fun find of the night was a variety I&#039;ve never found before (I&#039;ve found plenty of 1970 S LMC Small Dates, RPMs, and 1970 D Roosevelt Dime DDRs, plus a few others.) </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>1970 D Washington Quarter DDR (FS-802)</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center">The reverse appears to be a later die state - the doubling is evident on the serifs, but not so much in the middles of the letters. It&#039;s really difficult to capture properly tonight, although I think there is still enough detail to identify.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1425843[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In UNITED, you can really only see the split serifs on the lower right corners of NIT:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1425842[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see it clearly on the upper right corner of E in STATES, the lower left in the second S of STATES, as well as a few of the top left corners of E PLURIBUS:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1425841[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s easiest to see here on the first R (upper left and lower right) E (upper left) and the second R (upper left.)&nbsp; You can also see it a little bit under the branch stems.&nbsp; (Again, my camera and I were struggling tonight.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1425840[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse lettering on the outer rim is all noticeably thicker than normal, which is what triggered my brain to take a closer look with the loupe.&nbsp; As I&#039;ve said, it&#039;s much easier to see in hand than it is in my images tonight - but that&#039;s just how it goes sometimes with closeups and my camera.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I did a great job showing the doubling, but I think there&#039;s enough there to confirm the variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was going to be happy no matter what (adding more 1970 D Kennedy Halves to my hoard), but these two finds are icing on the cake.&nbsp; Thanks for checking out my post![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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