1909S VDB LINCOLN WHEAT PENNY CENT - ETSY ESPAÑA EN ESPAÑA

The 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent is perhaps the most famous of all issues in this long-running series. The lowest-mintage regular-issue piece with a mintage of only 484,000, it is still available with relative regularity and many examples are available under the same roof at any given large coin'show. Still, many Lincoln cent enthusiasts consider this coin the holy grail of numismatics and it is without a doubt one of the most sought-after coins around. In 1909, The United States Mint replaced the Indian Head penny with the Lincoln cent. Victor David Brenner created the design under the auspices of President Theodore Roosevelt. Brenner added his initials V.D.B. to the coin's reverse, at the bottom between the two stalks of wheat. Up to this point, coin designers used only the first initial of their last name. To have all three initials on a coin's design was unheard of. Slightly less than a half-million of these pennies were minted before the Treasury Department demanded that the initials be removed. This created an overnight sensation among coin collectors, and this penny has become known as the "Holy Grail" for collectors of Lincoln pennies.