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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BadThad, post: 531491, member: 17261&quot;]Nobody seems to appreciate collecting the series. Yes, IMO, there are key dates. OK, so they&#039;re not that hard to find, but I consider them &quot;key&quot; because of mintage. Try to find well-struck, spotless, EDS, MS65+ red coins. Pay attention to the memorial steps. Finding coins with complete, well-formed and hit-free steps is a challenge. I add a designation stolen from the nickel collectors, FULL STEPS, complete end-to-end steps on the Memorial.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_date" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_date" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_date</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s the mintage figures for UNDER one billion &quot;key dates&quot;. I&#039;ve also added the FS (Full Steps) designation for the years I know it&#039;s possible. For some years the master die had worn steps, so FS is not possible.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><u>KEY DATES BY MINTAGE (less than 1 billion)</u></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1970S SD &lt; 1,000,000 (unknown, estimated)</p><p>1960 SD 2,000,000 (unknown, estimated)</p><p>1968 S 261,311,510 FS</p><p>1973 S 319,937,634 FS</p><p>1972 S 380,200,104</p><p>1974 S 412,039,228 FS</p><p>1971 S 528,354,192</p><p>1969 S 547,309,631</p><p>1960 P 588,096,602</p><p>1962 P 609,263,019 FS</p><p>1959 P 610,864,291 FS</p><p>1970 S 693,192,814</p><p>1961 P 756,373,244 FS</p><p>1963 P 757,185,645</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><u>SEMI-KEY DATES BY MINTAGE (less than 2 billion)</u></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1969 P &quot;1,136,910,000&quot;</p><p>1959 D &quot;1,279,760,000&quot;</p><p>1965 P &quot;1,497,224,900&quot;</p><p>1960 D &quot;1,580,884,000&quot;</p><p>1968 P &quot;1,707,880,970&quot;</p><p>1961 D &quot;1,753,266,700&quot;</p><p>1963 D &quot;1,774,020,400&quot;</p><p>1962 D &quot;1,793,148,400&quot;</p><p>1970 P &quot;1,898,315,000&quot;</p><p>1971 P &quot;1,919,490,000&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.badthad.com/coin/memorial_mintage.xls" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.badthad.com/coin/memorial_mintage.xls" rel="nofollow">http://www.badthad.com/coin/memorial_mintage.xls</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would also specutlate that possibly some of the 1982 zinc coins may fall into the key criteria, but no separate mintage number exist that I&#039;m aware of. If you have another Memorial you might consider &quot;key&quot;, please let me know. I&#039;m not including errors, varieties or proofs.</p><p>If you have an FS example of any of the years I&#039;m missing it for, I&#039;d like to hear about it. I&#039;ve not been able to locate FS coins for those years.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ben Peters lists the following tough Memorials:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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