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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 95619, member: 4626"]Purchased it nearly 20 years ago at a small coin shop in Newtown, PA.  As I recall I paid about $3 for it then.  Found it interesting partly because of the turtle on the reverse, fact it was a foreign coin minted in the US (as the San Francisco mint did for a few countries at the time), and still had George VI on it with his imperial crown.  I still think it's a neat looking coin, even if not particularly valuable. Guess "rarity" is quite relative, lol... there were more 1909 S VDB Lincoln cents minted than of this. In the condition it's in I'd guess it would be worth now about the same I paid then, meaning that at least the value has kept pace with inflation. Went to Fiji in person in 1998 and their coinage is pretty similar still; with the British monarch on the front (Fiji has been essentially independant since 1970, but still is considered part of the Commonwealth) and some element of Fijian life on the back.  When they became indpendant they switched to the Fijian dollar as their currency, it was exchanging for about 2 to the US dollar when I was there.[/QUOTE]