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Message:: [QUOTE="Indianhead65, post: 326760, member: 103422"]Sorry I havent responded to your question sooner. I havent been on the forum much lately. The best way to find out what the key dates are for each type coin that you want to buy is either buy yourself the book, "A Guide Book of United States Coins" by R.S. Yeoman aka the "Red Book" and by looking up each series you can pretty much figure out which coins are "key" dates or "semi-key" dates by the mintages for each year. However, there are different types of what defines a rarity which makes a coin a "key" date. There are mintage rarities which are pretty obvious to figure out then there are condition rarities which are coins that are difficult to locate in particular grades. Some are hard to find in circulated grades, some are hard to find in MS grades and then some are difficult in any grade. Usually, as stated in the link I have provided, a key date most always has the lowest mintage in its series. Building a type set this way would not only be very impressive but also very expensive. Good Luck!!! <a href="http://keydatecollection.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://keydatecollection.com/" rel="nofollow">http://keydatecollection.com/</a>[/QUOTE]