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Message:: [QUOTE="Hobo, post: 1138171, member: 11521"]You are correct. My answer was too confining as I was speaking in terms of Morgan Dollars. As you pointed out the correct answer should have been the 'S' is used to denote a silver coin when another composition of the same denomination was minted in the same year.   If the only commemorative dollars produced in a particular year are all 90% silver there would be no need to use the 'S' prefix because there are not other compostions from which to distinguish them. For example, in 2000 the Leif Ericson Millennium Dollar and the American Buffalo Commemorative Dollar were minted. Both are 90% silver. No other compositions of those coins were minted so the 'S' prefix is not needed to distinguish them from other compositions. (i.e., "2000 Buffalo$1" or "2000 $1 Buffalo" will suffice.) Of course, the Sacagawea Dollar was also minted in 2000 but it would be described as "2000 Sac$1" and should not be confused with the Silver Dollars.[/QUOTE]