My Almost Completed Lincoln Cent Collection

Does it look a bit like this?




Also, congrats on getting so close to the finish line. Do you think you'll make it across at some point?

That is nice to hear, as I too for the longest while needed the coin Spence posted until I took in lots of trade to finally get one.

I don't count the 1922-D no D and the 1955 DDO as part of the main set as those are errors so they can't be included in the main set, although really cool to own them if you have them, which I don't have yet.

My guess is the 1909 S VDB.

Congrats. You should post pictures of your set.
The Lincoln series is my favorite and I'm quite a ways off from completing it.

Of all the cents, I had an easier time finding a 1909 S VDB than a VF+ 1914 D. All the 1914 D I found were AG-G and many looked terrible, the 1909 S VDB were easy to find in VF+. There wasn't much of a premium from VF to XF, and the VG+ cost almost as much as a VF, so I went for a VF for 1 album and a AU for the 2nd. The 1914 D I stuck with VF as the cost gets very high going from VF to AU.

HFJacinto is correct. It's the 14-D. I bought the 09-S VDB from The Penny Lady about 3 years ago. Just recently I bought the 31-S and D from different sellers on ebay. Those 3 coins are actually the highest quality coins in my set. I'd like to at least get my money back on those one day and figured a higher grade coin was the way to go. I also don't believe the 55 DDO is needed to complete the set, but I've been looking. When I was 12 in 1962 (yeah, I'm old) my parents took me and my brothers to Knott's Berry Farm. At the time they had a coin shop (no longer) and in the case they an XF '55 DDO for $300 and I tried to convince my dad it was a good buy. He was unconvinced. $300 was big money in '62.

good luck finding a nice 14-D cent!
and congrats on almost completing your set

Congrats! It's a hard thing to do!

1914D is a tough coin. I rarely see them at coin shows where I may see 5-6 SVDB's.

Another tough, underappreciated coin is the 1931D in red. It took me over a decade to find one and mine is darkish red. What does yours look like?

I bought a 14-D from a dealer on the East Coast. Call me a pessimist, but I'm a little wary about this one. Bought it off their website after I saw it listed on ebay. My wariness is due to the fact that the price, though formidable, seems too good to be true. It was priced about 20% below what PCGS says it should go for. I'm almost 75, and one of the life lessons I've learned is "you get what you pay for." Also, why did it go unsold on ebay for so long (I watched it for a couple of weeks)? That said, I'm pretty sure the dealer is reputable. It's graded and slabbed by NGC, and I went to the NGC site and confirmed it had been graded by them and the grade. It's coming via FedEx with a 7 day return privilege. Still wary though.
So anyway, my Lincoln set collection is at least temporarily complete. Still gotta get that '55 Doubled Die though, but there's no space in my folder for that, so it doesn't count. For that matter there's no space for the 4 coins I have, or will have, that are slabbed.