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I'm a newby and i've already got a pet peeve
anoldgoat
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I collect Lincolns and notice that a "few" folks call the 1911-S anf 1924-D simi keys. But more often than that folks call a 1912-D a key date 
Is it the same in the more expensive series?
mike
Is it the same in the more expensive series?
mike
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W.C. Fields
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Lincolns aren't pennies. They're tiny little wispy pieces of metal, barely visible with the naked eye. That's why they're called "cents". Real men like them as big as half dollars:
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Russ, NCNE
Really depends on who you talk to. Historically, there wasn't much disagreement among collectors of what makes a coin a "key." A key was a coin that was hard to find in circulation or the neighborhood coin shop and usually has low mintage relative to other coins in the series.
These days, with all the focus on condition, it may be that a '12-D in mint state red condition could be much harder to find than the lower mintage '24-D in the same mint state red condition, for example.
A collector of these coins in these lofty grades might well refer to the '12-D as being a key date because the coin is hard to find in high grade.
The best example of this I can think of in the Lincoln series is the '14-S which is considered semi-key in circulated grades but in MS65 RD is much harder to find than a '14-D in the same grade. The 14-D is still a key date but in MS65 RD condition the '14-S could be logically called a key date as well.
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<< <i>I'm a newby and i've already got a pet peeve >>
Congratulations! You work quickly. Many members have peeves, and are never lucky enough to tame them.
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