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Everyone knows about the 1877 IHC and 1909 s vdb Lincoln Wheat cent and 1916 d Mercury dime and how they cost quite a pretty penny to get. But what are some affordable key dates. I tried posting this to the us modern coins side as well but it will not let me so if anyone can please link it over there I will appreciate it. Edited by ckrakowski
04/07/2017 4:58 pm
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On IH, the 1908S comes in as do the 1869 through 1874, those are semi-keys, On LWC the teen S mints of 1910-1915, 1926S, !922D, 1924D and 1931S can be had in reasonable conditions for under $150. Of course these are semikey as well as key dates, just as necessary and just about impossible to find in the wild. In Jeffersons, the five key dates run under $20 for all in some places. Edited by Crazyb0
04/07/2017 5:01 pm
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The 189S Liberty Head Dime would be a good one to find in a decent price range.  Of course you could just acquire a real lot of those 191D Mercury dimes and sell of the bad ones and keep the best.  In real life most key date coins are rather expensive. This is mostly due to people saying they are key dates. I've found that most so called key date coins are more common than many others in the same series. You have to remember that a 191D Mercury dime in G4 grade would be a lot less in cost than many other coins of much more difficult availability. |
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It would help to know what you consider affordable. For me any single coin over $100 is more or less out of reach. With that said and if you have a similar limit as I do then you are in for good news. All of the modern coin series, with three exceptions, have affordable key dates. The three exceptions are: Lincoln wheat cents; 1909-S VDB, nuff said Washington quarters (silver); 1932-D, just slightly less than the LWC key Presidential dollars; the Eisenhower RP still runs around $150 (I think) My disclaimer: I more than likely missed one or more higher priced key in the modern coin classification. Good luck and happy hunting. |
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Don't look at turn of the 20th century if you want underrated key dates. Rather, look earlier. There are TONS of obscure date Seated coins with survival rates in the couple hundreds which can still be obtained for under $50. In fact, they aren't regarded as keys or even semi-keys. Take the 1852-O Half Dime for example. 260k minted and approximately 200 still survive according to PCGS. (Most of them were melted after the weight reduction in 1853.) I bought one in Good for $36. Really, some of the stuff in the seated series will blow you away compared to the more popular series. But, while technically not a coin, I did get a CWT once with 5 to 10 surviving examples for under $60, not to mention it's a solid XF. |
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Interesting Omega. I love Seated coins. Probably have a couple hundred between Half Dimes, quarters, and halves. I have a few dimes too. For some reason I gravitate towards the Half Dimes, I guess because they are unique. Also the 1861 O half. I probably have 17 or 18 of them. What other Seated coins are keys in your opinion? |
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I will have to look at the Seated coins as well. The only ones I own are a few for my type sets and not all are in the best of shape. |
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That goes for me too! I need quite a few in order to complete the 7070 pages.
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Also the 1861 O half. I probably have 17 or 18 of them.  Wow. Any CSAs? I think confederate civil war issues are historically significant and that is how I tend to construct my collection rather than based on rarity counts. I would love to see images of your 1861-O collection. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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