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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 4400602, member: 1765&quot;]This is correct.&nbsp; The 1935-B British Trade Dollar had a mintage of 6.8 million, on par with some of the more common dates.&nbsp; It is the key date because all but about 15 were melted (and 2 are for sale by Stack&#039;s/Bowers soon in the same auction).&nbsp; There are countless other issues like this, like the 27-D, 27-S, 29-32 Saints, and others with less extreme differences between mintage and survival, but it&#039;s why mintages don&#039;t matter much.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for CC Morgans, some were low mintages.&nbsp; The lowest mintage CC is 85-CC, with the 3rd lowest mintage of all Morgans.&nbsp; Now, that&#039;s far from being the key date of the Morgans, or even the CC Morgans because of how they were released.&nbsp; Dates like 79-CC and 89-CC were released into circulation, so there&#039;s a lot more attrition in play for those date.&nbsp; 85-CC was released with the treasury hoard and GSA sales, so there are still plenty available, and they&#039;re mostly all uncirculated.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for what a &quot;key date list&quot; is, I&#039;ve never really heard that there is such a thing.&nbsp; The term &quot;key date&quot; generally refers to one of the hardest coins to place in one&#039;s collection, typically because it&#039;s the most expensive or among the most expensive.&nbsp; Excluding the 1895 proofs, the 93-S is the key date.&nbsp; Others you can discern from price and population guides, but the only CCs I&#039;d put on that list are the 79-CC and 89-CC.&nbsp; The term &quot;semi-key date&quot; is often used to mean the coin isn&#039;t one of the more common ones, but again there&#039;s no concrete list or criteria for being referred to as a semi-key.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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