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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 270620, member: 68&quot;]But the point is that not only are the &#039;09-S VDB&#039;s available at shows but the atendees have them at home in their collections.&nbsp; Certainly the strong demand for this coin gets them to the show but it&#039;s the &quot;wide&quot; availability that makes it possible.&nbsp; It&#039;s also true that higher prices for the &#039;72-D or S Would make them come &quot;out of the woodwork&quot; but to a surprising extent these coins simply don&#039;t exist and no price can make them as widely available as the &#039;09-S VDB.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Lest someone disput this allow me to clarify this statement a little.&nbsp; This specific date is not scarce in gem but it does have a very wide range of mintage quality.&nbsp; The &#039;09-S VDB by contrast tends to be well made but many have not been preserved well.&nbsp; What I&#039;m talking about is the high end of both coins which is more like 66 for the &#039;09 and 67 for the &#039;72&#039;s.&nbsp; There are some later cents that are definitively in lower supply in nice shape than the &#039;09.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously you&#039;re right that rarity doesn&#039;t create demand or everyone would be out trying to get one of each shape of snowflake, but these are US coins.&nbsp; People have shown a taste for US coins for two centuries now.&nbsp; In the last ten years significant numbers of people have come to embrace these moderns and many are up hundreds or even thousands fold.&nbsp; This has really been going on world wide and there&#039;s no reason to suppose it won&#039;t continue.&nbsp; While it&#039;s already far surpassed most peoples&#039; expectations it is still small relative the older coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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