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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 862562, member: 11854&quot;]I don&#039;t know that there is a hard and fast rule for what would constitute a key date.&nbsp; Your example of the 1909-S VDB Lincoln is an <i>excellent </i> one in that it is universally regarded as a key date by collectors yet is available <i>all the time </i> and in any grade range.&nbsp; It would be tough to find someone to argue against putting that Lincoln in a key date basket, but it would also be tough to go to any mid sized or larger show and <i>not </i> find multiple examples in nearly every grade.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What is a key date, then?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; I would imagine any coin with a very small <i>extant population </i> either overall or relative to other coins in the series would qualify, though I would not be offended if others did not agree with me on that point.&nbsp; It is up to you how you would like to define the term since it is your site and as long as you had some sort of logic behind your reasons then it would be a valid statement.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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