Certified Brown Percentage: 17.5%
Certified Red and Brown Percentage: 58%
Certified Red Percentage: 23%
Certified Cameo Percentage: 1.5%

From a mintage of 2,031 Proofs, 846 of which were included in the year's silver Proof sets and the remaining 1,185 of which went into the two-piece minor coin Proof sets alongside the Liberty Head nickel. Unusually for a Proof Indian cent, Rick Snow (2014) has identified seven die marriages for the 1899.

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the August 2019 Rosemont ANA Auction, where it realized $9,000.