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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 664747, member: 16948&quot;]My advice is still stay with high quality key dates due to their low mintage - they are a great investment and when times are tough, they seem to stay steady, and when times are prosperous, they just climb up in value.&nbsp; For instance, my favorite series is Indian cents and the major keys are the 1877 (mintage *852,500) and 1909-S (mintage **309,000).&nbsp; By the way, anyone will tell you that you can throw out the Gray Sheet when it comes to pricing key dates, as the Gray Sheet is always way behind what key dates actually sell for, but just so you can see the price increases for comparison sake, here are Gray Sheet figures for these two coins in MS64RB and MS65RB which are pretty high grades: </p><p><br /></p><p>2001 MS64/$5,000 MS65/$6,900</p><p>2006 MS64/$5,500 MS65/$8,000</p><p>2009 MS64/$7,100 MS65/$11,000</p><p><br /></p><p>2001 MS64/$675&nbsp; &nbsp; MS65/$1,100</p><p>2006 MS64/$1,125 MS65/$1,425</p><p>2009 MS64/$1,300 MS65/$1,850</p><p><br /></p><p>*There is a high possibility that the mintage is only $200,000 or so because there is only one obverse die known for the business strike 1877 and you can&#039;t mint much more than 200,000 coins per die.</p><p><br /></p><p>**The 1909-S has a known lower mintage than the 1877 but it was saved in rolls and large quantities since it was the last year to be minted for the Indian cents and only 1 of 2 dates minted in San Francisco, therefore, it has a much larger survival rate than the 1877 and a somewhat lower value as a result.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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