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Post a picture of your: 1909 S VDB and/or your 1990 NO S proof Lincolns
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I always wanted the 1909 S VDB when I was a kid. I don't care if it's common. I bought this raw over 30 years ago. I have no intention of ever selling it. 
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Same here. Owning one was a dream. As a kid I felt it consumed me. So many years searching.
Lance.
Nice coin, and nice pictures!
Bought this before all the hype in 2007 knowing prices would rise for the 100th anniversary year.
The 1909-S-VDB was the last coin I purchased to complete the 1909 to 1940 Liberty of Coins book. Finishing that set was a long time coming for me. I started with Lincoln cents as a collect during Christmas of 1959. I finished the set in 1982.
I bought this coin with ANACS papers. They under graded it as a VF-20.
It's now in an NGC EF-40 holder.
I haven’t seen any 1990 no s yet….. makes you wonder
They are 100x rarer. Ask people to post pictures of their 1804 dollar and see how many responses you get.
I think the idea that they are rarer is congruent to what I said
I didn't suggest otherwise. I'm just saying that I would expect to get fewer...many fewer.
I don't own an 09SVDB but all these years later I can tell you how many were minted: 484,000.
I can't name most of the various varieties that exist in the Lincoln Cent series.
Pics from my archive - Won it (raw) in an eBay auction and sat in my Dansco for quite a while before getting graded as an F12 by our hosts.
Am very surprised that I did not take any pics of it after being slabbed
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091
67RB Pop 1/0. I think it is in the top 3 finest known.
Way more attractive than most “Reds”.
Here is mine. PCGS MS 65 BN CAC.
@Ronyahski There are at least 16 that grade MS67 RD.
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I’ve always wanted one as a kid. Spent countless hours then searching rolls and pocket change. A few months ago, just before turning 72, I finally bought one. Here’s pics from the seller:
Steve
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
I'm still looking for a nice '09s VDB. Have owned this '90 no S for over 20 years.
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!
MS66BN
- Bob -
"Central Valley" Roosevelts
MPL's - Lincolns of Color
Sorry to bring this thread down a few grades..... Well, a lot of grades!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I think "top 3 finest known" was for the color designation.
Young Numismatist
That story makes me very happy and anticipatory for the many years of collecting I have ahead of me. Thanks for sharing, beautiful example
Very nice. Basically the modern 09 s vdb. Yes it doesn’t make sense when you think about it but sounds right. Nice example I want to have one eventually
Makes me think my 1909 s ms66+ could go 67
66+ rb
Still ungraded, I just keep it in one of them plasic cent holders.........
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
One for the type set and one for the date set. Haven't found a Proof 90 yet. I'm looking.
This one was found in an old Whitman folder in the wrong hole. It's interesting it circulated as long as it did before being put in the folder.
I dont own either, but looking at a few coins on this thread make me almost want one!
I know how you feel. Ouch!! 😫 😭
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I'm another who only dreamed of ever owning one, when I was a kid. Then, many decades later, I decided that making that particular come true was a good idea.
Years ago, PCGS gave this one a bag because of the color.
One more.
Looks like this one could use some conservation before that verdigris gets out of control!
Do you think conservation would help this one?
An acetone bath and VERDI-CARE would fix that guy right up!
While the coin is submerge in the acetone and then in VERDI-CARE, use a very very soft bristle brush and very gently clean in and around all the devices and in those wheat lines. But that's just me. I'm not advising or recommending others to do that.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
Interesting how many raw ones are in this thread given how often the forum says that anything not slabbed is fake or a problem.
If it's not in a slab, there's no way in hell "I for one" could ever tell it's real.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
I've got a very nice raw one myself. The one I pictured above is not so nice, but it was bid up to $350 fifteen years ago. So not everybody is averse to adding problem coins to their collections.
Post a picture. There's a cottage industry here comprised of people who authenticate them from online images.
I'd love to, if I had a raw one to show you.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
One of mine is the one with the 4 holes drilled in it. Can you authenticate that one? 😉
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
From the amount of 1909-s VDBs posted I think it is clear which is more popular.
But we already knew that, I guess.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
I started a thread about this one recently when I bought it, but I'm thinking "Why not post it here too?"
Or more common. I mean, there's more than 100 SVDBs for every No S. We actually don't have 100x as many SVDB as No S posted.
Here is my 1909-S VDB. This was my first coin purchased in 2017 when I got back into coin collecting. The coin CAC'ed about 5 months ago.
Donato
Before:
After:
Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set
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After over sixty years of collecting I still do not have one. As a young man my grandmothers sister had four or five of them. But she had found them all in circulation (1950's) and was very proud that she had so many. But having one is on my bucket list but in a high grade BN or RB.
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Bad transactions with : nobody to date