A Must have penny for any coin collection. The 1909 Wheat Penny has a scandalous reputation in the numismatic history of the U.S. The first year of minting these coins resulted in the designer Victor D. Brenner’s initials “”VDB”” being prominently struck into the coin’s reverse. Newspapers across the country abhorred the tackiness of his initials on the coin! The uproar caused the U.S. Mint to quickly remove that design feature. Thus, the 1909 VDB penny is quite the collector’s item, since it wa