is the 1946 dime cosidered a "keydate"

just realized the Roosevelt dime i bought for my collection is actualy the first year minted for this type and its in unc i plan on getting some first years for my collection and already got one not realizing it.

so i was researching this dime type and found some interesting info how many of you knew these things i didnt

 

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First issue always carries some special flavour to collectors, whatever the mintage.
Usually key dates refer to the lowest mintage, but IMO they could be also related to the "first year" issue and also to the "last year" issue.
This has been noticed also by a lot of sellers on ebay who put in the coin description this mention in order to justify some premium value for the coin

 

What about that black spot on Roosevelt's head and the ones on the reverse? I could be wrong, but the dime looks dipped to me. What's it look like in hand?

 

I cant even see the dots there so small i think it has to do with the silver content

 

All regular issue silver Roosevelt dimes are extremely common. I do not see evidence of your coin having been dipped; it just looks like any of the other of millions upon millions of silver Roosevelt dimes that were stored in rolls and later sold individually.

 

Its a neat dime; even if it doesn't have much numismatic value past melt price its something you don't see every day. Are you collecting loose coins or graded / slabbed coins for your first-year-of-issue type set?

 

Yes 1946 PDS is!

 

my collection im trying to do is one of every type denomination since the sitting liberty types including coins like how the modern penny has had like 6 different reverses or the nickles or change in metal content ect wile throwing the first minted ones in to of the newer coins at least and there raw in 2x2s graded coins are to exspencive and harder to organise them all together in a binder

 

I knew it !!!! I just knew it !!!! JS - Uncle Joe Stalian... Yep a commie under every rock !!! LOL good stuff :foot-mouth:

 

those are called carbon spots. Somewhere along the line someone probably got saliva on it maybe by talking while handling it. Carbon spots on a coin are not as bad as a cleaned coin but they are not good either. Those "small" things are pretty much the core of the coin collecting hobby- get used to to looking close for nicks on the cheek and stuff.

 

1946 through 1955-PDS s is all have a lot carbon spoting.
Weak bands too.

 

I don't know that there are any true 'keys' in the FDR collection, but if there were, I thought it was one of the 49s.
???

 

I would say that and the 1950-S are the closest thing to "regular issue" key dates in the set.

 

If you're talking about what you're able to find out there, the keys are definitely '49DS, '50DS, '51DS and '55PDS. Maybe not collector-wise, but as far as attempting to build sets from circulation, those are the toughest I've come across.