AboutMyCoin1909-S Wheat Penny with VDB in VG8
A 1909-S Wheat penny with the VDB initials graded VG8 is worth $800 to $929, from sales and public data. The grade below it is Good (G-6), and the same coin in that grade is worth less — how much less varies from date to date.
Very Good (VG-8)
$800 to $929
From sales and public data. Figure occasionally updated. Not an appraisal or declaration of worth or value.
What VG8 means
A 1909-S Wheat penny with the VDB initials in Very Good (VG-8) is well worn but complete: the cheekbone and the jaw of Lincoln’s portrait and the hair above his ear are smooth, the tips of the wheat ears and the upper edges of their stalks show the outline of the design and little inside it, and LIBERTY behind the shoulder, IN GOD WE TRUST above the head and the date stand clear of a full rim that runs unbroken round the coin.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade VG-8. They are the same grade and the same 1909-S Wheat penny with the VDB initials.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1909-S Wheat penny with the VDB initials is given run from PO1 to MS70RD. One step up from VG8 is Very Good (VG-10). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
A blank in the value column is a grade this site has not researched, not a grade the coin is worth nothing in.
← Good (G-6)Very Good (VG-10) →
What it sold for
No certified sale of a 1909-S Wheat penny with the VDB initials in VG8 is recorded in the sources this site reads, because the archives that record sales at this level are behind a login and this site does not read them. The range above is what the published guides say rather than what anybody paid, and it is the weakest figure on this page.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1909-S Wheat penny with the VDB initials in VG8, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. If what you find sits outside $800 to $929, trust what you found: it is newer than this page.
Where these figures come from
We gather publicly available data from several public sources including eBay, PCGS, NGC, Numista, USA Coin Book, PriceCharting, and others.
Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.
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