The Lincoln Union Shield Cents first appeared from the United States Mint in 2010. They served as an end to a series of quickly changing reverses for the cent coins (sometimes referred to as pennies) which started the previous year to mark the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the […]
Lincoln Pennies
The final of four cent coins struck during 2009 by the US Mint was the 2009 Lincoln Presidency Cent. It featured a reverse design emblematic of the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln has been featured on the smallest circulating coins of the United States since 1909 when the cent coins (also referred to as pennies) […]
The 2009 Lincoln Professional Life Cent was struck by the US Mint with a reverse design emblematic of the time the 16th President of the United States lived in Springfield, Illinois. It was released as the third of four new cent coins (sometimes referred to as pennies) issued in 2009 by the Mint to honor […]
The 2009 Lincoln Formative Years Cent was the second of four new Lincoln Cents to be issued by the US Mint in 2009. These four new cents (sometimes referred to as pennies) were struck to acknowledge the bicentennial of the birth of the sixteenth President of the United States Abraham Lincoln who is featured on […]
The 2009 Lincoln Birthplace Cent marked the first major design change in the cent coin (also known as a penny) from the United States Mint in fifty years. It was one of four special cents struck by the US Mint in 2009 to represent four different stages in the life of the person honored by […]
The 1959-2008 Lincoln Memorial Cents were issued by the United States Mint for fifty years. They first appeared in 1959 which marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the individual honored by the cent coin, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and was born in 1809. His image first […]
The 1955 Lincoln Doubled Die Cent is an extremely popular coin among collectors who seek the strike to add to their collections despite it routinely selling for thousands of dollars. These strikes were produced by the US Mint through an error in the coin production process resulting in a doubling of the features on the […]
The appearance of the 1943 Lincoln Steel Cent was the result of a shortage experienced in the nation for the two metals typically used in the construction of the cent before that time – copper and tin. That shortage (owed mostly to the participation of the United States in World War II) forced the Treasury […]
The popularity of the 1909 Lincoln V.D.B. Cent is owed completely to an administrative decision made by the Treasury Department and the United States Mint. That decision removed the artist’s initials of V.D.B. from the 1909 Lincoln Wheat Cent mere days after the coin debuted. Interest in creating a new design for the cent coin […]
The 1909 – 1958 Lincoln Wheat Cents started off a century-plus series of small cent coins struck with designs honoring the sixteenth President of the United States – Abraham Lincoln. When added together with the rest of the Lincoln Cents (sometimes referred to as Lincoln Pennies), which span well into the twenty-first century, these strikes […]
