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Finally……Got a 1960 P Small Date Cent!
ambro51
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One of the Great Rarities of the kid collector era I never encountered one in the wild. This was today’s $8 eBay buy. I really like the reverse detail, that’s how I judge these coins. You Like??
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About time!
Very nice coin. As an avid collector of this series I have always had an interest in the small/large date years 60, 70, 74 and 82 as well as the close/wide AM varieties. Although the average person would have never recognized them, they were so easy for the beginning colector to spot with the naked eye.
must be a nice change
Congrats and wtg 🙂
Wasn't on my bingo card.
Congratulations.
I don’t collect cents, but is this one. Collected it as a kid.
It’s rather interesting how these came to be. The 1960 cent production began in January, but in a short amount of time, they stopped production. This was to complete contracts for foreign coins. When production resumed, the new production run used large date dies. Out of the 2billion+ coins, they estimate perhaps 2 million small date were coined. Congrats on the pick smudge
Congrats on fulling a long overdue empty slot. Looks to have a very strong EDS strike.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Don’t forget there is a proof, too!
I don’t collect proofs. No interest whatsoever. I’ll leave them for future generations
I think I paid a Dollar for mine back in the early 60's, back when a Dollar would get you lunch at McDonald's and about 40 cents change!
Were these in Mint Sets,??being the first version struck.?
Found mine in change in 1960-1961. No problem.
Found lots of 60-Ds, but none from Philadelphia.
But then, I grew up on the west coast, so there's that. To be honest, finding anything recent from Philadelphia was unusual. On the plus side, S mint coins were relatively common.