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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 1389338, member: 6036&quot;]There&#039;s a lot of truth to this.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, the dominant factor is &quot;demand by US collectors to fill a date/mm set&quot;. Just think about how many of those blue Whitman folders were sold to 13 year old paper boys back in the day... millions of &#039;em. That folder increased demand greatly. It affected the mind-set of kids, and now those same kids are grown-up and &quot;gotta collect &#039;em all&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>For that reason, a 1909-S VDB cent is expensive, but certainly not rare.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not so sure on this one. I think almost all keys are, in fact, significantly scarcer. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example, people search rolls to complete their Lincoln set and never find certain dates, so they have to pay extra for those dates. Those &quot;certain dates&quot; are truly scarcer; the large number of people competing for them drives up the price in true free-market &quot;supply and demand&quot; fashion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1914-D Lincoln cent truly is scarcer and a true key; calling a 1958-D a &quot;key&quot; would not artificially drive up it&#039;s price. There simply isn&#039;t enough lipstick for that pig.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I am aware that certain issues temporarily go up in price due to promotions or novelty; however, that bubble almost always bursts and the prices come back in line with reasonable prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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