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Message:: [QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 1260407, member: 18157"]I was looking through some early Lincoln cents this morning and a question came to mind (I guess it's always been there)... "If I had to collect just one, which would be better to collect...D's or S's?" To answer that question, I wondered..."Which ones are worth more?" Well, to answer that, I had to decide on a fair comparison. I wanted to focus on dates when both coins were minted and on coins that had significant valuations...so I chose the 23 year period between 1909-1931 and the grade of MS-63. I decided to let the Red Book (2010 is the latest I have) be the arbiter. There were four (4) years during that period when no cents were minted at the Denver Mint (1909, 1910, 1921, and 1923). I didn't want to include die varieties (such as the 1922-D "No D"), but thought it wouldn't be fair to discard the famous 1909-S VDB since it's so popular. I kept the 1909-S VDB, but discarded the others. I guess I was a bit surprised with the result...the total was much closer than I had expected. The 1914-D really evened things out. I think I'm still partial toward the "S" minted coins...but I didn't get the scientific justification I was looking for. <img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/DvsS.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]