Finding My 1909-S VDB

Nice story

GREAT story Steve. keep posting them
Gary

Those are the finds of a lifetime. The best Lincoln Cent I ever found was about 15 years ago, it was a 1914 S. For a split second I thought it was a D, but I was still happy to find it.

Arthrene,

"...sometimes you get lucky..."

Let that be your motto. Affirm it in your mind every day.
Just remember...every man-made thing on this planet BEGAN AS A THOUGHT in someone's mind.

Steve

Fireman, nice story. I wonder what are the chances today of finding an 09S or an 09S vdb? Fact is though, they've got to be out there. Millions of folks have Lincoln hoards stashed in their homes and most of them can't be bothered searching through them. And a coin like that in circulation would go unnoticed for while to untrained eyes. I can only imagine the adrenaline rush of finding one I got a charge last summer when I found a 40 something merc dime in my change. But an 09S VDB? I could only imagine.

I'll tell you what I think though. If I were to find a bank that would sell me cent rolls, and I had the time and patience to go through them, I think the odds of me finding either one are zilch. Nice day dream thought.

Thanks.

I kind of missed that excitement of finding such rare coins. Way, way back when I started collecting, such coins were not that rare. I filled several albums of Lincoln Cents, Mercury dimes, etc. when I was a kid and seldom realized any where of excessive value. That is because they weren't. An 1909S VDB was no really big thing. This was in the 1940's so there was so many old coins in circulation but then again, they weren't old then. For example when I was a kid there was only Mercury dimes and still lots of Liberty Head ones in change every day. Roosevelt was some kind of president or something to us kids and not on a Dime.

Carl,
That's interesting.
During the time I collected in the early '60s I never found a Barber dime, Quarter, or Half, or Indian cent. Not even a worn or common date one.
I've often wondered when they dropped out of circulation....when they ceased to be commonly found.
Steve

Not sure they ever really ceased to be commonly found. Just slowly vanished do to many reasons. Way back in the 40's and 50's there were not many coin collectors around. Few, coin shops and the ones that were around were also for stamps, hobbies like model airplanes, trains, etc. Red Bood was the only coin book around so again, not much interest for most kids in collecting coins. No internet, little TV and few stations you know. I only ever knew one other kid that collected coins back then. His house was robbed though and never went back to collecting coins. Halves were mostly Standing Liberty and some others. A seated Liberty coin was not uncommon but was fading away. What I thought was great was when someone would slip my Dad a 0.20 piece instead of a quarter trying to cheat him.
You must remember way back then even what is considered real valuable today in coins was just no big thing.