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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 140102, member: 2761"]Mintage numbers, survival numbers and market demand all contribute to determining value for any of our coins.  Keep in mind, you only have a given number of coins (99% of the time unless the U.S. Treasury finds a bunch of Morgans like they did in 1962) for a growing population of collectors. You can have a coin with very little mintage numbers, but if nobody wants or collects a particular coin, then it really isn't designated as a  "key". All things being equal, "keys" are those coins in a given series that are more rare, more demanded, and way more costly then the other common coins in a particular series (i.e. Morgans, Lincolns, Buffalo nickels,etc.).  Look no further than a Red Book and see what the value is for a given coin in VG condition and see how your particular coin measures up against other coins from differant years and mint marks.[/QUOTE]