How can this be a 1970 release when it clearly shows 1972 at the bottom of the labels???

My copy has the 1972 labels but includes the date 11-10-70 in the deadwax. Other copies here have the same label design but not the 1972 date so those are presumably the earliest pressings.

John Coltrane was a musical sailor to say the least, and one for a variety of reasons, had a very short career. Coltrane was not just an important jazz artist, he was an important saxophonist, an important influence, and one of the most controversial figures in all of music. Discerning Coltrane’s work can get a bit iffy at times, since material he did as a session man was often so strong that record companies would reissued it under his name ... and I haven’t even gotten to the posthumously released tracks; much of which needs to be taken with a grain of salt. If that weren’t enough, Coltrane can be seen as a protean player, one of those rare artists who’s style and tenor radically changed and evolved over his career, causing fans to divide into camps, and even those camps to be sub-divided according to appreciations of his styles and experimentations.The Best of John Coltrane: His Greatest Years, is not so much a compilation of his work, but more, it’s an annotation of his life and times, bringing to light a taste of his almost religious commitment to jazz, setting the stepping stones others will be following for the next hundred years. What you’ll find within these grooves is bop, swing, and experimentation that will highlight an adventurous time in America, when the axis of the world shifted, and nothing would ever be the same again.This is a vinyl only trip …Review by Jenell Kesler