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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 361000, member: 68&quot;]I don&#039;t have a lot of experience for every date.&nbsp; I do collect these so do have a little feel for them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s tough depends somewhat on how you grade and how important you consider a good strike by good dies. It also depends on how tolerant you are of spotting.&nbsp; I suspect true pristine gem &#039;68-P&#039;s are far more difficult than people realize.&nbsp; Every single one in mint sets has carbon spots now.&nbsp; There are plenty of roll coins that are pristine but finding these with good strikes isn&#039;t easy.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;79-D is a bear in mint sets but roll coins actually contain a few high grade examples.&nbsp; The &#039;69 is tough if you like them clean.&nbsp; &#039;78-D is tough in the mint set as are the &#039;73&#039;s.&nbsp; The &#039;84-D is vastly underrated in the highest grades.&nbsp; A lot of the later dates come extremely nice and this applies to almost all the zinc issues.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably possible to almost complete a &quot;branch mint proof&quot; zinc set but a few will prove impossible probably.&nbsp; The &#039;72-D is underrated.&nbsp; It&#039;s considered quite common in 67 but that&#039;s because the services allow weak strikes.&nbsp; Like the quarter this is almost impossible with a 100% strike.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;70-S sm dt is getting quite tough.&nbsp; It&#039;s been picked out of all the mint sets and the few left tend to be ghastly.&nbsp; Of course the ones already picked out are often tarnished now as well.&nbsp; While this used to be common in gem, it&#039;s been years since I&#039;ve seen a nice gem.&nbsp; Higher grade pieces were always a little elusive. They come up to about MS-68 with a few vaguely PL.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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