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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 8274614, member: 68&quot;]Most proofs of most dates are FS.&nbsp; A date like 1982 would be pretty tough to find without FS and the problem will be a mark rather than a bad strike.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But SMS coins are mostly far more like &quot;mint sets&quot; than proof sets.&nbsp; Most SMS nickels were struck only once so even though most dies had all the steps they do not show up on many of the coins.&nbsp; And then the steps are often damaged in handling.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The long and short of it is that both FS and FB on dimes can be far tougher than other mint set coins.&nbsp; I recently went through several hundred &#039;66 SMS nice choice nickels and found fewer than 1% that were FS.&nbsp; The &#039;67 is comparable.&nbsp; The &#039;65 was only a little easier.&nbsp; 1% is an awful lot of coins for today&#039;s demand but as time goes by there are fewer and fewer and more and more demand.&nbsp; I doubt there are even 15,000 still in existence and finding one in pristine condition isn&#039;t as easy as it was back when you could walk into any coin shop and look through 100 sets.&nbsp; Now you&#039;d have to look through 300 sets and in 30 coin shops.&nbsp; Then there&#039;s a very good chance the first one you find will be tarnished.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the FB dimes are even tougher and more likely to be tarnished.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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