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Message:: [QUOTE="Collecting Nut, post: 25842649, member: 74863"]Your coin is a neat find. It’s a 1909 Lincoln Cent. This was the first year of issue. On the reverse at 6:00 are the letters V.D.B., Victor David Brenner, who designed this coin. The Lincoln Cent was issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth. The Lincoln Cent was also the first type of cent you have the motto “IN GOD WE TRUST”. The V.D.B. Is on a limited number of cents for 1909. It was removed but restored to the obverse on Lincoln’s shoulder, about 7:00 in 1918. Yours coin is worth about $6.00 with the reverse initials, less with no initials so it’s not worth grading. Sure neat to find so protect it as it’s over 100 years old and they don’t mint them any more. Now if you have the S mint mark under the date then it’s worth about $600.00.[/QUOTE]