USA 1974 One Cent, business strike, Date variety, Large and Small, can that be added?

Hi, I know books do not recognize the  large and small dates, Large date was first out at all mints, for me I compare the 9 and 7, on the large date, both numbers are much thicker for each respective mint, here are a couple articles written a several years ago talking  about this very thing. Mintages would include both.  https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/694/      http://www.lincolncentresource.com/smalldates/1974.html            

The differences are not really important enough. Imagine a type collector trying to categorize his doubles. 

Even as a year and variant collector, I would certainly not go into that kind of detail.

You're welcome to show your documentation in the section designed for that, but please don't to try to manipulate the year lines.

Take care

Ole 

Ole, thank you for your message, sorry you don't see it my way, many years have large, small date info, what makes them different?  Here is the main reason for me to want it in the site, I found it by accident when I was reviewing all of my 1974 cents, the variant stuck out to me, having never heard of this I started researching what I saw, at first I thought the thick/ large date was a double die, only to find out that the mints all did this change on purpose, yet no one cared enough to even mention it in many books, at the end of the day does it matter, no, I have put private notes signifying how many of each version I have, but can't we give the knowledge to the next person adding their collection to Numista? no one would force them if they don't want to, you could leave all your 1974 cents in the large date, sounds like they're easier to find, who knows, maybe people will try to get all 6, that's what I did, why is that bad? I think it adds a nuance to collecting that could spark interest if people actually knew about it,  it isn't about value to me, I just think it's interesting.                                                                                                   Thanks again Doug.

Ringgy

Ole, thank you for your message, sorry you don't see it my way, many years have large, small date info, what makes them different?  Here is the main reason for me to want it in the site, I found it by accident when I was reviewing all of my 1974 cents, the variant stuck out to me, having never heard of this I started researching what I saw, at first I thought the thick/ large date was a double die, only to find out that the mints all did this change on purpose, yet no one cared enough to even mention it in many books, at the end of the day does it matter, no, I have put private notes signifying how many of each version I have, but can't we give the knowledge to the next person adding their collection to Numista? no one would force them if they don't want to, you could leave all your 1974 cents in the large date, sounds like they're easier to find, who knows, maybe people will try to get all 6, that's what I did, why is that bad? I think it adds a nuance to collecting that could spark interest if people actually knew about it,  it isn't about value to me, I just think it's interesting.                                                                                                   Thanks again Doug.

Hi Dough,

but I do think like you, but please leave your documentation of the size of the dates in the comments section. You can add in the year line, that different date sizes exist, but don't ask for a new year line, except if the found variant is over a significant amount of all the coins from that year. A multitude of year lines is bad in the sense of swapping, since you never know, in which year line type or year collectors put their coin. I'm a variant collector, and when a year has several (or just two) year lines I'm NEVER sure, which variant I'll really get. If I swapped with another year/variant collector, I might be lucky to get the variant, I was missing.

PS On some used coins, you're not even able to determine the variety, so you would also need a year line for “not identified variant”.

Have a nice day, Ole