Here's a GOOD one!!!

This is what the die break looks like.

 

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Thanks, the other one I have is belonged to my father and he got it during WWII when he was in California. It came as change for a pack of Lucky Strike cigaretts (sp). You'd buy a pack for $.23 cents and put a quarter in the machine. Your smokes came out with 2 pennies inside the cellophane wrapper, LOL.

B

 

man what a find, 14-d's are one of my favorite coins (hence my pic). I hope its real!!

 

What distinguishes a Lincoln cent as beign VDB? I am pretty new to colelcting still but i was going thru a box my dad gave me and it had 5 mounted Lincolns. 3 1909s a 1943 Steel and a 1959. Two fo the 1909s were labeled VDB. Sorry I couldnt scan, the pictures were worthless, as soon as my camera gets back home I'll add pics. Thanks for the help.

 

Great find. Usually those SO CALLED unsearched cents are just a joke or how would they know that they are all Wheat Cents. My son used to buy me that stuff and had to tell him to stop because never found anything. Wherever you got them, keep on trying.

 

The VDB is on the back of the coin....down near the edge of the coin below the wheat ends.....you might need some looking glass to see it.

Speedy

 

Thanks a lot speedy. Didnt realize How blind I am till I was looking for it lol. I finally got the history of the VDB to download to, very interesting. I think I am doin ok then two of the three '09's are VDB scripted Once again I am workign on pics for viewing pleasure but the scans are crap and photos are too large lol Just my luck. I'll have them added to a website and do it that way I suppose

 

Are you saying that the 1909 Cents are S Mint mark when you say 09's or are you saying that there are 2 1909-P mint coins??...as you know I'm sure the 1909-S VDB are pretty $$$...

Speedy

 

There are no mint marks on either Cent. If I recall that is usually done with the Philadelphia mint correct? As I said I'm sorta new and slow lol

 

Hi,
Let's clarify the V.D.B initials on Lincoln cents. In 1909, they made 1909 and 1909 S cents with and without a V.D.B. The Initials of the designer Victor david Brenner.

That means that their are 1909, 1909 S, 1909 V.D.B. and 1909 S, V.D.B. cents.
The 1909 S is a semi-key coin (mintage 1,825,000)
The 1909 S , V.D.B. is a key coin in the series (Mintage 484,000)
On 1909 series cents, the V.D.B. is on the Reverse of the coin, centered at the bottom, near the rim, between the wheat ears.

Initials were not seen on the cents again until 1918 with the exception of a reported variety where there seems to be evidence of the remnants of a V.D.B. on the reverse of a 1910 Philadephia Mint cent. (Please don't ask where I heard that, I don't remember, but it was a sought after variety) There is some evidence of it here http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/...10&PHPSESSID=58f9407acd1a96f799ff5fd9bc87a752

Anyway, in 1918 the initials were added again and the location has been the same since. It is on the base of the bust of Lincoln on the lower left portion of the shoulder.

That is why the V.D.B. (Actually , the lack of it) is a diagnostic feature of the genuine 1914 D cent. It is not supposed to be there on a genuine 1914 D Lincoln Cent.

I hope this helps,
Have Fun,
Bill

 

Yep--if there isn't a mintmark it was done at the P mint

Speedy