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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Phoenix21, post: 298594, member: 7424&quot;]Wow, okay. My best advice to tell you is if you <i>really</i> want to invest in coins, read and learn all you can. I&#039;ll help ya out a little bit. VF and XF stand for Very Fine and Extra Fine, they are grades on the Sheldon Coin Gading Scale. This is the scale most commonly used to grade what condition a coin is in. Very Fine and Extra Fine are about the middle grades, and probably the two most collected grades. To learn to grade coins you might want to do a few of several things such as 1. buy a book on grading 2. Look at slabbed (coins graded by a proffesional company) coins, and get your self familiar with grades, 3. Look at thousands of coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>1909 S cents are one of the key cents in the Lincoln cent series, mintage of around only a little under 2 million I think. The key date of the series is the 09 S VDB cent. There were two set of cents minted that year with the VDB printed on them. The VDB standing for the designer&#039;s initials, Victor D. Brenner. The VDB is located at the 6 o clock position on the reverse of the coins in 1909. There was a controversy over the initials being where they were, so the removed them that year, and put them at the bottom of Lincoln&#039;s Bust in 1918. And since that happened, there were four sets of Lincolns to collect. 1909 P VDB, 1909 S VDB, 1909 P, and 1909 S. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now there are 3 current mints used today that mint coins, and they are: S for Sanfrancisco, D for Denver, and P for Philadelphia. You will find either a P, D, S, or no mintmark on a coin. Some coins that were minted in Philly didn&#039;t carry a mintmark for several years, and some present coins today do now. There were also other mints not used today that minted coins that you will find on some coins CC for Carson City, O for New Orleans. You will find them on some of the older coins. This a a very brief bit of knowledge to know for coins, and I hope it has helped you man. Knowledge is one powerful thing, and if you want to invest in coins, then I suggest learn all you can. But remember coins isn&#039;t the best thing to invest in, actually one of the worst things, but if you really want to invest in coins, who are any of we to stop you. But also along with investing, I would suggest throw in some collecting too, and admire the beauty that is on most of the American and World coinage. Best of luck to you. :thumb:</p><p><br /></p><p>Phoenix <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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