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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26066894, member: 101855&quot;]“Key dates” can be found anywhere in a series of coins. For Liberty Nickels the key dates are 1885, 1886 and 1912-S. Frequently they fall in the middle of a series when the mintage was low and few were saved. </p><p><br /></p><p>Frequently the first year of a series is not a key date. The mint often makes an effort to get the first coins of a series into circulation and makes a lot of them. People often save the first year because it’s something new and different.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are exceptions, like the 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter and the 1921 Peace Dollar. In those cases, the mint didn’t get around to making the coins until December. There was only one month’s worth of production. The San Francisco Mint produced all of the 1912-S nickels during the last week of December. Therefore the mintage was low.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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