Four new Penny designs to go into circulation in 2009

September 25, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

To celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Penny, the United States Mint unveiled 4 new backside designs for the Penny. The 4 new designs indicate important moments in Lincoln’s life, beginning with his birth in a log cabin, his education in Indiana, his political life in Illinois, and finally his inauguration underneath the unfinished US Capitol building.

This is the first time any sort of change has come to the Penny in over 50 years. The four different designs will be rolled out in 3-month periods throughout 2009. Look out for them, collect them, and then spend them!

If you ask me though, I think its time to get rid of the idea of a 1-cent coin altogether. Does anybody actually like carrying a couple of cents around? I sure don’t.

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