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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;spirit, post: 3048669, member: 90636&quot;]I am thinking of buying a RED 1909 S VDB Lincoln cent. I will buy it in a graded slab in the hope of slowing down the inevitable oxidative process. Housed in a (imperfect) graded slab and stored in optimal conditions, what is the guess-ti-mate of how long it will take to start to turn Red-Brown and then finally Brown? I would like this coin to be part of my legacy collection that I will pass down to my young daughter and her eventual children. The fact that this 109 yr. old coin is still red obviously indicates it can be a very slow process. So, I know your response has to be only a ballpark one but I would appreciate your advice nonetheless. Is there anything else I can do to preserve the &#039;&#039;Red-ness&#039;&#039; ? Or, should I just buy a less expensive brown one and be done with it? Or possibly, can this coin &#039;&#039;always&#039;&#039; retain its Redness even without some new future storage invention? Thank you for your advice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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