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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 441807, member: 4381&quot;]To be honest, I hate this coin and wish they still used the flying eagle, BUT, that being said, the demand for most of the series is a drop in the bucket compared to the mintage of most dates.&nbsp; That&#039;s why there so collected.&nbsp; I have Jars full of them all over the house.&nbsp; One time I went into a restaurant on 58th street and 8th avenue and someone asked for some pennies, and the guy pulled out two fire buckets of them and told him they can take a handful, no charge.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s only the keys with lower mintages that are going to face a bubble, IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For example, even in the first year they minted 100,000,000 Lincoln cents, and they went up from there.&nbsp; In 1919 they minted almost half a billion Lincolns.&nbsp; &nbsp; The 1922 rare &quot;plain&quot; variety?&nbsp; over 7 million of them, and that was a mistake coin, probably one for every serious coin collector in the US.&nbsp; By 1942 the mint produced almost 9,00,000,000 Lincolns.&nbsp; There was almost 2.5 x10-9 (2 and a half billion - more than one for everyone in China) steel cents made during the war. The &quot;scarces&quot; 1944 S over 280,000,000 alone.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s just the Wheates.&nbsp; There are over 4,000,000,000 1969 -D&#039;s.&nbsp; That might have been the world population in 1969.&nbsp; 1972, 7.2 billion between Philadelphia and Denver.&nbsp; 1980 over 12 billion.&nbsp; in 1982 over ten x 10-9 from Phili alone.&nbsp; And today it seems to be slowing down because....well probalby because of plastic and because they&#039;re worthless.</p><p><br /></p><p>There can be all the demand in the world, but only a few keys will feel upward pressure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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