1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent. The 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent is one of the most popular United States coins. This popularity had led it to become the most commonly altered and counterfeited collectible coin in the world, according to submissions to NGC.
Our coin value guide has pictures and prices for thousands of rare U.S. Not only can you get history and auction data about your coin, you can also work directly with any of our coin experts to get straight answers on what your coins are really worth, if they should be graded, and if an auction is the right place to sell them for as much. Sell Rare Gold Coins Do you have choice or rare United States gold coins for sale? No one pays more for your gold coins than Douglas Winter Numismatics. We are aggressive buyers of early gold coins, branch mint gold coins, Proof gold coins, specialized collections of United States gold coins and high quality American gold struck prior to 1933. The modern coin era began in America in 1965, the first year the U.S. Mint produced copper-nickel 'clad' coins as replacement for silver coins, ending an unbroken, 173 year tradition. For many collectors, this was the death-knell for collecting, as the coins would no longer have any intrinsic value and mintages would be huge.
This most valuable coin list is dynamic and is based upon the few thousand or so United States coins found in our ever growing database (updated: 2021).
As of now our database consists almost entirely of coins from 1880s-2021, as we wanted to focus mostly on coins that were readily accessible and possibly still in circulation. The purpose of this page is to assist coin hunters and collectors in their pursuit of valuable coins. This page will save you a bunch of time, it represents hundreds possibly thousands of hours of research and detailed coin analysis. There are some older gold coins in the mix however.