VKurtB

Before 1968 ALL proofs, with only the rarest of counterexamples, were struck in Philadelphia. This San Francisco thing is a relatively new thing.
 
Now IMA be a smarty pants. There aren't varieties that MATTER out there waiting to be found, as you will soon learn. The current newbie fascination with incredibly minor varieties has NO SUPPORT in the larger numismatic community. "Real" "serious" varieties don't need high magnification. I just got back from a WEEK at a show with about 700 dealers. THREE listed errors an varieties as a specialty and NO ONE was running around with a USB microscope examining minor varieties. It is just not the mainstream you're working in here. It's a tiny niche.

I've got to be honest with you guys. There really aren't lots of previously unfound varieties out there waiting to be found. There just aren't. It's primarily fiction! Does it happen a couple of times per year or so? Sure. But it's like trying to hit it big with lottery tickets! Even Wexler names a bunch of varieties that NO third party grader will certify. This doubling mania has gotten out of hand, guys.

Doubling? No. Maybe a wee bit o' "spreading out". These hubs and dies were used HARD, unforgivably so.

I've got to be honest with you guys. There really aren't lots of previously unfound varieties out there waiting to be found. There just aren't. It's primarily fiction! Does it happen a couple of times per year or so? Sure. But it's like trying to hit it big with lottery tickets! Even Wexler names a bunch of varieties that NO third party grader will certify. This doubling mania has gotten out of hand, guys.

Doubling? No. Maybe a wee bit o' "spreading out". These hubs and dies were used HARD, unforgivably so.

Pumbaa: What's a motto?
Timon: Nuttin'. What's matto for you?

+1 on each and every word Conder has written here.

I hereby suggest that all soup cents in the NGC Registry be graded Mm Mm Good.

I'm not seeing a DDR, but you might just have something there for a DDO.

Doubling? No. Maybe a wee bit o' "spreading out". These hubs and dies were used HARD, unforgivably so.

Okay, now you've gone and done it! You've opened up Pandora's box full of cans of worms, to coin a mixed metaphor. I have studied the 1970-S cent for many years. I do not believe there are two types. I believe there are at least three. I hope to someday have time to document my theory. Your 9's tail is telling me 'small date', and I thoroughly believe tops of numbers are irrelevant. But your LIBERTY is pretty strong compared to the recognized small date. Again, I think yours will technically not be considered a small date, but neither is it fully a large date. In my personal opinion, it is a third type of date. No, it's not recognized by the hobby, but I believe it exists. What yours indisputably does have is a high mintmark, which all true small dates also have.

There are three different varieties of 1972 Philadelphia Mint Eisenhower Dollars alone. The Type II is the most desirable. The diagnostics are in Caribbean Sea on the image of earth. 

"you and I both know"
Do we? Do we really? Not so sure.

"Soup cents". A new Registry, perhaps?  

OUTSTANDING! Enjoy. That's pretty cool.

Karen,
While I do like the find - a die crack, I am not a fan of "cutesy" names for varieties. I guess it flows from my revulsion with "cutesy" names for ordinary astronomical events like "super moon" [a full moon near perigee], or "blood moon" [lunar eclipse]. I have been very thoroughly trained to be a man of science, and not into "pop culture" expressions and lingo. In that regard, I am severely "whimsy challenged".

I went back and re-looked. While I do own an MS65RD [not so red anymore] slabbed [old small ANACS slab] 1909VDB, yours is waaaaaay better than my "album piece".

Oh Lisae, it's worth than you thought. Some 1942's are and others are not. Any with a LARGE mintmark above the Monticello is, and those without are not. The difference is a war-required change in the alloy, because nickel was a "strategic" metal for the war.

I'm not seeing a DDR, but you might just have something there for a DDO.

Go in with this attitude, just one time - "This club needs my new blood more than I need them." It's probably even true! Heck, if I had a good reason to be down there, I'd go WITH you.

Mine too.

For the newbie in this day and age, if they intend to use it hard and often, which I recommend, the wirebound regular one is my recommendation. One reason is it can lie flat open on a table while you keep both hands free for a coin and a magnifier. I use it with less constancy and more often to search for a particular thing, which makes the lie-flat aspect far less important. Plus, I started when the hardbound was the only choice and I like the constant look on my bookshelf. If I were a beginner today, I'd probably choose wirebound. More varieties are covered in the regular version than had been the case just a few years ago.

If Facebook floats your boat, go to it. I have never had an account and never will. Why? Because I know the likes of Zuckerberg, and I regard him as close to purely evil-intended. I have no desire to be his "product" that he sells to advertisers. You DO realize, I hope, that the federal government has fined them BILLIONS of dollars for misconduct, right? Whatever.

"But we all need to understand people like yourself has more and better knowledge than the red book."
 
That's where you risk being DEAD WRONG. I buy the new Red Book every year and now the Mega Red, too. It is still my #1 source in U.S. coins. Foreign is another matter. Yes, there may be a niche or two where I might have some specialized knowledge, but some of the finest minds in this field "pour their guts" into that Red Book every year. Do not diminish its importance.  I was at an auction a few weeks ago where there were some large cents I needed for my set. I picked off my shelf Mega Red #1 (before it was actually called that), because of the detailed section on large cents.

No.  Coins specially made for collectors do tend to come in higher grades than they did in the past, but a 70 is NOT a given.  Grades below PF-68 or MS-67 are unusual though.  Problem is there are enough PF-70, or MS-70 or 69 to make anything that grades lower a dead item in the market.