Finally……Got a 1960 P Small Date Cent!

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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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  • IkesT
    IkesT Posts: 4,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    About time!

  • hbarbee
    hbarbee Posts: 226 ✭✭✭✭
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    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.

  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    must be a nice change

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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Congrats and wtg 🙂

  • RedRocket
    RedRocket Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wasn't on my bingo card.
    Congratulations.

  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don’t collect cents, but is this one. Collected it as a kid.

  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 16, 2026 10:21PM
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    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

  • coinbuf
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    Congrats on fulling a long overdue empty slot. Looks to have a very strong EDS strike.

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  • Ronsanderson
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    Don’t forget there is a proof, too!

  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don’t collect proofs. No interest whatsoever. I’ll leave them for future generations

  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    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!

    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Were these in Mint Sets,??being the first version struck.?

  • BJandTundra
    BJandTundra Posts: 401 ✭✭✭✭
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    Found mine in change in 1960-1961. No problem.

  • MasonG
    MasonG Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 18, 2026 5:02PM
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    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.

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