2025 "Omega" cents - but wait, there's more!

This is the one I seen pictured. I don't know how much to believe at this point.

 

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Got to love the irony that they stopped minted cents because it wasn't worth doing anymore but they're making valuable collectibles out of the last of them lol. Why are they trying to make people want a coin that they just cancelled making because nobody wanted them? Get your story straight!

And they're still minting pennies for unicirculated and proof sets for at least one more year, maybe more if they feel like it... so these aren't really the "last" ones anyway. (You can't even call them "last made for circulation" because these WEREN'T made to circulate.)

Well I won't be owning any of these, but if anyone wants them and can afford them, more power to them I guess.

 

You hit the proverbial nail on the head. Not only that, but they made a big splash about how special the last 5 were going to be, $2-5 million apiece, and now there's suddenly 232 sets of them.

 

We will still get 2026 and beyond Lincoln cents in Mint and Proof sets.

 

It all seams so high and proper, all I know is I can't afford that auction, and I really hope they get what they pay for. Not trying to be mean, just sayin.

 

Are they going to run 232 sets through Stacks & Bowers? Lol curious how they plan to do this? Anyone know? I keep checking at usmintdotgov for updated schedule. For other stuff, I guess we have all seen them catering more and more to 3rd party dealer favoritism. Seems that way, folks only had 30 min window on the marine privy eagle before they ran out of product.luckly I was online and got to order one. It's showing back ordered now. I don't have the money for one of these Lincoln cent sets but like to watch it.

 

See my posts #17 and #19 on the previous page. Yes they are all going through Stack's and I'm guessing the same as the Dec 24 auction of 230 anniversary dollars with privy marks - one auction, one right after another until all are sold (or passed on).

 

Now if only we can stop calling it a "penny".

 

Never going to happen. Even the US Mint calls it a penny. https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-r...-three-coin-sets-featuring-24-karat-gold-cent

 

Makes sense.

 

I see what you did there.

 

So when they say the last ones, it really doesn't mean the last cents, mabie the last shield Lincolns, mabie not the last cents at all, because we can make a profit on them now, basically as much profit as we want, just call it a business strike, and sell to collectors for whatever, because it's a true business now. I dunno what's going on, trying to keep up, but it sounds like it's not the last of anything besides loosing money on the cent. Just add a privy mark, or a P and call it the last.

 

Also consider that, as far as I know, no one in US numismatics history has ever cared about the "last" coin minted.

 

I'm fairly sure there was no special ceremony in 1857 for the last half cent we ever minted.

 

There's no plan on redesigning the cents other than the dual "1776-2026" date on them next year. They will still have a shield on the reverse. So these aren't the last shield cents either.

 

Except maybe those last five Liberty nickels...

 

Gosh I forgot about those. They check all the boxes for deliberately struck "last" coins I guess, minus the omega. Maybe the 1933 $20 too. Although I'd have to say they aren't valuable for being "last."

 

Yeah, I left off the 1933 gold on the grounds that there were a bunch struck, and no telling which of those made it out the door.

Same with the 1964 Peace dollars, although there's not public proof that any of those escaped the melt. (The 2021 and later strikes don't count, as they aren't for circulation, I guess.)

 

No thanks. I think the United States mint has lost touch with the true collector. First it was ridiculous pricing increases on the annual products. I understand that at the end of the day they need to be profitable, but really? Now, over the last few years, they're singling out the deep pocket collectors. It couldn't possibly be that the sales figures have tanked year after year for the past decade creating sizable losses. I find myself passing on what use to be ordered directly to buying on the secondary for less once the hype wears off.