Is This Unusual?

Is what unusual, that one seller has four 1909-S VDB cents available? Maybe so on ebay, but it is not unheard of for a dealer. I have seen dealers at coin shows with multiples.

In MS-64 or better? plus he has already sold at least one that I saw.

I don't see anything unusual.

Some people only collect high-end key dates.

Maybe he's a dealer trying to unload some inventory and free up some cash.

They are nice coins for sure...wouldn't mind having one!

I guess when you think about it maybe it isn't so strange. With so many Chinese counterfeits on the market it doesn't hurt to be skeptical. JMO. I wish I had one to sell!

Me personally would never deal with any of these so called rare/high end coins for a few reasons

1. as stated above, when there money to be made it makes counterfeiting more common
2. The most I ever will spend on a coin is 100 but in the end its your decision
3 (my view point) As I mainly buy for the metal value ex silver, I always think about how much I can get instead of how rare something is. I sold a few of my high end stuff on ebay to make purchases for something I feel is better. At the end of the day, somewhere down the road it wont matter how rare something is.

Way over priced

Not unusual, at all. There are literally dozens of S-VDB's available at any of the larger coin shows. I saw that one dealer at the FUN show had a few dozen, himself, mostly high grade, stacked in slabs. Not unlike most first year coins, the S-VDB's were saved in large numbers. I tend to see more for sale above FINE than below that grade. There are ever so many coins that are more difficult to locate than an UNC S-VDB. I suspect at present that key date coins, gold and silver all look like good alternatives to those who are invested in the volatile stock market. Also, I see far more slabbed UNC S-VDB's than those simply graded GOOD.

Checking this guy's Feedback, he's already sold a total of 29 1909S-VDB's, the worst of which was MS63RD and the best of which went for over $12,000. In addition, he's moved a bunch of high-grade St. Gaudens Double Eagles. I'd guess him to be a pretty high-end collector, indeed.

And no, S-VDB's are not nearly scarce enough to make quantities like this unusual. They're the moving target of numismatics - everybody's selling them. Heritage has moved over 2,000 examples alone, and there's over 200 on ebay right now.