Saw pics of new Lincoln cents for the first time today

Just got a subscription to Coinage and there's an article about them in this month's issue. It just arrived today.

I have to say I really like them. I will definitely buy a proof set of them asap. Looks like nothing is set in stone yet but some of the ideas will go and they will come out 01/09.

Does anybody know if they will continue to use all 4 reverses for years to come or will they pick one and go with it in 2010?

BTW, this may be old news. I haven't looked for them in the past.

 

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My understanding is that it is a one-year issue and that in 2010 a new permanent reverse will be used.

 

Designs

Here are several of the design proposals. http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=2956

The mint will issue a new reverse design every three months during 2009. These designs will be representations of periods in Lincoln's life - his early home years, his educational years, his years in the Senate and his term a President. Then, in 2010, a new design will permanently replace the reverse. Through all of this, the obverse will remain the same as it is now.

They will be issued from both Philadelphia and Denver, and there will likely also be proof issues but the mint producing those isn't know at present. This will make a total of up to 12 different 2009 cents to collect. Maybe even more if they add matte proofs.

 

blech, yech, meh

 

The law also allows the mint to strike the coins for the numismatic sets (which would be the mint set, proof sets, and any other special sets they choose to make.) in either the same metal as the circulation issues or in the original 95% copper 5% tin and zinc alloy, or both.

The maximum number of cent varieties they could strike next year are
2009 P regular finish 4 varieties
2009 D regular finish 4 varieties
2009 P circ metal satin finish 4 varieties
2009 D circ metal satin finish 4 varieties
2009 P Copper satin finish 4 varieties
2009 D Copper satin finish 4 varieties
2009 S proof circ metal 4 varieties
2009 S proof copper 4 varieties.
total 32 varieties

I still think I should suggest to the mint that they should issue a set of all 32 varieties in one custom holder.

That is correct.

 

He looks like a game-show host in #16.

They don't design coins like they used to.

 

A couple are'nt too bad .
rzage

 

After 1916, things have gone down hill....

 

Nor stamps, which at one time were limited to commerations of actual historical events but which, in the 1980's, deteriorated into things like flowers, muscle cars, Mickey Mouse (for God's sake!), etc. Purely for the profit of the BEP.

That's when I got out of that hobby.

 

The Peace Dollar is excellent. So is the Kennedy Half. Had the feminists not ruined everything by insisting Susan B. Anthony's face be put on the minidollar, we might have had an excellent design.

(is it true they melted every single 1977 pattern?)

 

Just curious, why do you single out that year? Personally, I loved the Standing Liberty Quarter, Walking Liberty Half, etc, that were made into the '30s and '40s.

 

I believe so. But, you can get recreations. They are out there.

 

But they were designed before 1916.

 

I figured there was a logical explanation that was eluding me! Thanks Dock.

 

The Peace Dollar was the end of the line for great design on American coinage. This effluent they crank out now just looks like ticky tacky clip art bull to me.

 

I think the most ridiculous aspects of the 2009 cents is that they will have nothing of President Lincoln's presidency. Said time is when he had by far the greatest impact and influence on American politics, the results of which are still in place today. Lincoln by far and away was the greatest of all of the American presidents, the others were figureheads or milktoasts.

 

Not true. I read in the article that the fourth and final issue next year, is supposed to be one commemorating his presidency. Which sounds like it may be a picture of him standing in front of the capitol buidling.

The one with the capitol dome being partially finished has already been rejected because 'most Americans would not understand the significance and take it the wrong away'.

 

ahhhhhhhh wow nice pic's!

 

(1) OBVERSE- The obverse of the 1-cent coin shall continue to bear the Victor David Brenner likeness of President Abraham Lincoln.

(2) REVERSE- The reverse of the coins shall bear 4 different designs each representing a different aspect of the life of Abraham Lincoln, such as--

(A) his birth and early childhood in Kentucky;

(B) his formative years in Indiana;

(C) his professional life in Illinois; and

(D) his presidency, in Washington, D.C.

Hi Dave.

 

I don't like a single one of the concepts.

A return to simple coins like the early 1900's would be nice.

The new dollar coins and statehood quarters do nothing for me.