1909-S VDB LWC - Opinions Please

I guess I'm just being an inpatient child because I want one

Fools rush in. There will ALWAYS be umpty-numbers of these for sale in any grade you want. Study, study and study. Show us ones you are serious about.

Yes do not settle for one just because it's slabbed by a Top TPG'er . Like they say buy the coin not the slab . The eye appeal has to hit you in the face .

Well this VF20 pops out to me, but they want full retail.

Just keep saving and looking and the right coin at the right price will appear for you eventually. A coin like that, a key date, are being bought and sold all the time people trying to make a couple bucks, people trying to sell and losing a couple buck's just to get rid of something they over spent on at the wrong time and need the cash
It's an ongoing cycle, If you really watch it you'll even see the same coin switching hands a few times a month if there's meat on the bone and a few bucks can be made.

Patience is the key here and then the right situation. I know you want the coin now, but it would benefit you greatly to instead look at it from a coin dealer perspective and not pay full retail for whatever you settle on.. even get comfortable with grading and values to a point where you buy and sell, and flip your way up to the coin you are most happy with as the one that completes your set and your finally done. It's those "gotta sell" situation where there's meat left on the bone that you can flip and make a few bucks and you'll feel like you're also getting something done and on your way to that 1909S vdb that either completes your collection, or so good it forces you to upgrade the others to be in the same album with it.

Thank you for the advice guys. But I'm starting to think that I might just get a low end one. There's one at $500 right now that's a VG10 straight grade. If I can get it for $500, then I will be upgrading from an ungraded VG details coin to a graded VG10 straight grade, for $50 more. I'm thinking there's no bids because the planchet has streaks in it. But to me it kind of looks like sunlight, and it doesn't bother me. I guess we'll see. The auction ends in about 6 hours.

Chill out. You have no idea what his top bid was.

Move on to the next one. These are dirt-common in this price range.

Collectors don't have that luxury, not for quality anyways and especially not on more expensive coins without getting lucky. The majority of the time more expensive coins are bought below market is because they're low end for the grade or lack eye appeal which are the purchases most often regretted later on. Quality costs money and knowing when to pay up for it is one of the hardest lessons that collectors have to learn which often times many do not.

Generally speaking when something is a lot cheaper than it should be there is a reason why someone is willing to do that.




Just to clarify low end high end and low grade high grade are too very different concepts. Every grade has a low end and a high end. Whether you go low or high grade you should aim for an upper end of the grade premium example. It'll cost a little more but you'll enjoy it more and a lot of people shy away from lower end examples of a grade if you decided to sell later on.