Canadian Penny Prices

Depends what you mean by "upper MS", and "value". Most modern stuff has a top grade of 66 or 67. Most Elizabeth II coins are significantlyless than $1000 in top grades, with exceptions of the 1955 NSF and 1953 SF, etc. The ultra-modern stuff can be had for less than $100 quite often.

George V and George VI coins can run into the thousands in MS-66 or MS-65 for the more key dates.
Canadian cents are still a far cry from the Lincoln series though, where quite a few coins will run into the tens of thousands in 66 and 67 grades, and into six figures for a top grade '09 S-VDB.

I was referring to the older canadian pennies, from say the 40's into the 60's at MS 65......seems even the later 50's and 60's all go into BIG dollars....just wondering why they newer ones were so expensive.....50's 60's