STICKY: The Official Key Date Thread! Yippee! Woohoo! Boo Ya!

DAS7NY

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Hey gang! I may not have been posting as much as I used to but I am still lurking around! :wink: I'm still doing boxes and once I finish this batch of 24 I'll be happy to post my results! :D I read a couple of posts with people asking about a key date coin thread. So, I decided what the hell, I got into this because I collect coins, why not share a little knowledge! I'm also procrastinating doing my HS AP work! :tongue3:

Now for those of you who don't know, a "key" date coin is ??? :dontknow: :icon_scratch:: A key date basically the hardest coin in the series. Coins of this nature are usually very, very expensive, even in their lowest grades. This usually happens because very few of them were minted. I'll show you all of the key dates, and their mintage's! ;D

Take Note: Guys, I'm not gonna go through every coin series! Only the ones you'll be likely to find at a bank! Example, I'm not going to tell you Capped Bust Halves, because all of them are very valuable! :)

Let's start off with the cents!

Indian Heads
1877 --- Mintage: 852,500
1909S --- Mintage: 309,000
Semi Key: 1908S --- Mintage: 1,115,000

NOTE: The better date coins were minted from 1866 to 1879, so any of those are worth a PRETTY penny! (Pun intended!) :D

Wheat Pennies
1909 V.D.B S --- Mintage: 484,000
1922 No D --- Mintage: Can't find a record.
1955 Double Die Error: Mintage Unknown.
Semi Keys: 1914 D --- Mintage: 1,193,000
1931 S --- Mintage: 866,000

NOTE: There's tons of error coins that are worth something too, but there's books written on that stuff, I can't go through ALL of it! :)

Liberty (Commonly known as "V") Nickels
1885 --- Mintage: 1,476,490
1886 --- Mintage: 3,330,290
1912 S --- Mintage: 238,000
1913 --- Mintage: 6 Known

Don't think you're ever gonna find a 1913 guys! :D

Buffalo Nickels In this series there's tons of over dates and over mint marks, and I'm not going to do them either... Sorry! :'( :'( :'(

1913 D --- Mintage: 4,156,000
1913 S --- Mintage: 1,209,000
1913 S Type 1 --- Mintage: 2,105,000
1921 S --- Mintage: 1,557,000
1926 S --- Mintage: 970,000

NOTE: Just because a coin is a key date doesn't mean its worth hundreds, or thousands of dollars. In their lowest grade, most of THESE coins are pretty affordable.

Jefferson Nickels
None. If you thought there'd be any key dates here, you're funny! :D :D

Barber Dimes
1892 S --- Mintage: 990,710
1893/2 --- Mintage: 3,340,792
1894 O --- Mintage: 720,000
1895 --- Mintage: 690,880
1895 O --- Mintage: 440,000
1896 O --- Mintage: 610,000
1896 S --- Mintage: 575,056
1897 O --- Mintage: 666,000
1901 S --- Mintage: 593,022
1903 S --- Mintage: 613,300
1904 S --- Mintage: 800,00
1909 D --- Mintage: 954,000
1913 S --- Mintage: 510,000
1915 S --- Mintage: 960,000

Once again guys, not all of these are expensive, in fact quite a few are very affordable and make great investments, because when an interest sparks in the Barber series, and the demand goes up, you'll make some money! :thumbsup:

Mercury Dimes
The King! :icon_salut: :icon_king: :icon_salut: 1916 D --- Mintage: 264,000
Semi Keys: 1921 --- Mintage: 1,230,000
1921 D --- Mintage: 1,080,000

Roosevelt Dimes
Haha! Once again, NONE! Gotcha! :wink:

Guys, I gotta go work on my AP stuff! I'll do quarters, halves and dollars later! C ya!
 

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DAS7NY said:
Liberty (Commonly known as "V") Nickels
1913 --- Mintage: 6 Known

Don't think you're ever gonna find a 1913 guys! :D

Jefferson Nickels
None. If you thought there'd be any key dates here, you're funny! :D :D

Someone found a 6th 1913 V-Nickel? When? Did I miss something?

And 1950-D is a key-date for the Jefferson Nickel series whether it is a key date to you or not. Especially from a CRH perspective a most were hoarded when they were first minted and only a precious few found their way into circulation.

Also error coins are not key dates. They may be uncommon, but they are not keys.
 

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6th one turned up in 2006 if I'm right. I considered a few error coins key dates because they are HIGHLY collectable and valuable. Some people said they don't know which coins are rarer than others, so this thread isn't STRICTLY key dates, it's more like coins you may come across that are worth a nice deal. Also, I just checked Coins magazine, only 6 1913's. ;D
 

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Might as well add the halves here as a few of these key dates have been found CRH

Kennedy Halves 1970-d

Franklin Halves 1955

Liberty Walking 1916 (p,d,s); 1917 (d, s with obverse mint mark); 1919(p,d,s); 1921 (p,d,s); 1938-d
 

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I like the thread. BUT... I think Key date coins and CRHing key date coins are different. And this is a CRHing forum so we want to see the CRHing Key dates listed not numismatic key date.
For example you say no key dates in the Jefferson nickel series, from a CRHing perspective (especially new hunters) will want to know to keep, 1939D, 1942P, 42S, 43P, 43D, 43S, 44P, 44D, 44S, 45P, 45D, 45S, 1950D.
This is just my opinion of what the "new" hunters are looking for in a list of what to keep.

Also Indian head pennies from a CRHing persective you keep all. They are all Key dates...

Just my 2 cents...


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For the silver rosies I think the key would have to any of the 1955 series for CRHunters.
 

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Hey everyone! I'm tied up with all of this AP crap... >:( I'll be able to finish this post Wednesday, after it's all do.
Shake-N-Bake said:
I like the thread. BUT... I think Key date coins and CRHing key date coins are different. And this is a CRHing forum so we want to see the CRHing Key dates listed not numismatic key date.
For example you say no key dates in the Jefferson nickel series, from a CRHing perspective (especially new hunters) will want to know to keep, 1939D, 1942P, 42S, 43P, 43D, 43S, 44P, 44D, 44S, 45P, 45D, 45S, 1950D.
This is just my opinion of what the "new" hunters are looking for in a list of what to keep.

Also Indian head pennies from a CRHing persective you keep all. They are all Key dates...

Just my 2 cents...


Jason

It's not a list of what to keep and what to throw back. If you get an IH you don't throw it back, that's a given. This is for people so that they know when they have something very valuable. Someone might find a 1908S and say "Oh an Indian, how cool" tuck it away in their stash, and never really know what they have. This is a list of coins that are of HIGH VALUE. Not all of the Indian Heads are key dates, some are only worth a couple of bucks. I want this to help people know when they have a MAJOR find. Hope you understand! The rest is on it's way within a few days! Thanks for understanding! :wink:
 

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DrDetector said:
DAS7NY said:
Hey everyone! I'm tied up with all of this AP crap... >:( I'll be able to finish this post Wednesday, after it's all do.

Let's hope it isn't AP English :laughing9:

I'm confused? I have perfectly good grammar and spelling. Was that a dis? :icon_scratch: lol. Im taking AP Global actually. It'll be up tomorrow. I best be going... Gotta wake up at 5:30! See you all tomorrow!
 

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DAS7NY said:
DrDetector said:
DAS7NY said:
Hey everyone! I'm tied up with all of this AP crap... >:( I'll be able to finish this post Wednesday, after it's all do.

Let's hope it isn't AP English :laughing9:

I'm confused? I have perfectly good grammar and spelling. Was that a dis? :icon_scratch: lol. Im taking AP Global actually. It'll be up tomorrow. I best be going... Gotta wake up at 5:30! See you all tomorrow!

Yessir it was a lighthearted jovial dis on your choice of 'do' versus 'due.' But really don't take it too personally. What is AP Global anyway? Is that like geography or just learning about the world in general?
 

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DrDetector said:
DAS7NY said:
DrDetector said:
DAS7NY said:
Hey everyone! I'm tied up with all of this AP crap... >:( I'll be able to finish this post Wednesday, after it's all do.

Let's hope it isn't AP English :laughing9:

I'm confused? I have perfectly good grammar and spelling. Was that a dis? :icon_scratch: lol. Im taking AP Global actually. It'll be up tomorrow. I best be going... Gotta wake up at 5:30! See you all tomorrow!

Yessir it was a lighthearted jovial dis on your choice of 'do' versus 'due.' But really don't take it too personally. What is AP Global anyway? Is that like geography or just learning about the world in general?

Oh! I get it! No problem! lol I didn't even catch that! It's AP Global History, basically early civilizations and tons of essays about them... lol
 

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