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Message:: [QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 1901563, member: 5233"]It's all supply and demand...like the pricing on anything else. One thing you have to remember too...is don't take mintages to heart.  Like green 18 said...the 1950-D is a great example of this.  Low mintage, but everyone knew that at the time.  Everyone "knew" it would be valuable so they were saved.  As a result, they are probably more common today in high grade than other years with 10x the mintage that weren't saved.  You have to think about "supply" as being the number that still exist in a given grade, not the number that were minted. Another great example is the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent.  Mintage of only 484,000 and quite valuable today.  However, because the 1909 Lincoln's were a first year issue...a lot of people saved them back then (not just the S VDB but all 4 1909 cents).  As a result, a disproportionally large percent of 1909 Lincoln's exist in higher grades than other years.  Now, the 1909-S VDB is still very valuable (in part because it is SO popular so the demand is very high).  But, compare it to the 1914-D cent...produced 5 years later when people where no longer saving the "new coin."  Mintage was 1.4 million, roughly 3x that of the 1909-S VDB.  In low grades, the value reflects the difference in mintage...the 1909-S VDB is more valuable.  But, as the grade improves, the 1914-D eventually becomes far more valuable since the supply dwindles.[/QUOTE]