Certified Brown Percentage: 18%
Certified Red and Brown Percentage: 68%
Certified Red Percentage: 13%
Certified Cameo Percentage: 1%

According to Rick Snow (2014), the Mint used only a single die pair to strike at least 950 Proof Indian cents in 1872 and virtually all known examples are well made. High quality Proofs are often selected for inclusion in date sets as substitutes for the circulation strike 1872 cent, an issue that is scarce in an absolute sense and rare in Mint State by the standards of its type. Of course, the Proof 1872 is also conditionally challenging.

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the August 2012 Philadelphia ANA Auction, where it realized $6,756.