1909 S VDB Cent

What are these things selling for these days? I know they were around $1100 in rough shape a few years ago.

 

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It would be worth quite a bit of money if it were a real S/VDB, but it isn't. The mint mark is too large, too weak, and in the wrong place. The 4 mint mark locations for S/VDB are known, and this isn't one of them. Not a chance it's genuine, I'm afraid.

 

Wow And the regular no mint below it I just posted???

 

I cannot tell if someone has added a mm or it is just pmd, but what it is not is a real 09-S VDB.

 

Does the lighting change anything lol??

After googling a photo of a known good one it appears to maybe be to high, but to bold?
I seem to see a bit of doubling in the word trust also now that I look.

 

Actually it looks fine to me now looking at some other s models of the era. What's wrong exactly?

 

I'm not even seeing a mint mark. Am I missing something?

 

When I first posted here, only two images were available and I thought I saw what looked like a faint "S" way too far to the left - half of it was under the 9 - which was also double the size one would expect. I don't see a MM at all now, either.

GeoffC, you gotta recalibrate a bit here.

 

Forget trying to find something that's not there. I can see a faint S but wrong location and too large. Fake all the way.

 

Sorry, I'm shooting through my magnifying glass, it gets tricky.
The mint Mark/damage who knows, when my grandfather got the thing back in the 80s we were under the impression it was legit.
Fake all the way, No, I've worked in banking since 1995, it's a legit 1909 dime, I can not for the life of me figure out the mint mark now that I'm running around it with a glass

 

Adding a mint mark to an existing, real 1909 VDB is one of the more popular ways to "create" an S/VDB. They're so numerous as to be considered "common" in numismatic circles.

 

Does the other one look alright? It's just an 09

 

Dime?

 

We're sorry, doing to much at once. Let's go with penny.

 

We? There's more than one of you?

 

Rough morning finding out I didn't have what I thought I had for the past couple decades....

 

For what little it may help, it's a fairly common occurrence...

 

Been there. Done that.

 

I have one of those on a key coin, too, look at this. So they must be real.

 

What is that exactly