Wow, seriously

I'm just waiting for the real last penny so I can call the series done lol.

Anyone else find it ironic how heavily they're marketing a coin... that they're discontinuing because it no longer serves a purpose?

 

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Who said something like this.....You can't leave me! I'm the Alpha, lady! I'M THE OMEGA, BABY! Okay, fine, I don't need you!

 

They're gonna milk that cow until it's powdered!

 

My father insisted on buying it for me anyway, even at the inflated price, to avoid embarrassment to my mother that always got this for me every year (she's "pretty sure" she got it, but can't seem to remember where she put it, and searches have failed to find it. She's in the hospital currently so can't assist in the search.) so I won't miss this year. Will see if it holds value, but it will certainly have sentimental value for the effort that put in to get it!

 

Oh almost certainly lol. I've come to realize it's probably the first US coin series, intended for circulation, I'll see end. Well technically: Eisenhower dollars ended in 1978, but I was only 2 years old at the time. SBA dollars ended in 1999, but they barely circulated. Presidential dollars... may never end truly, if they keep extending it for more presidents, as they already had for George H. W. Bush and I strongly suspect will eventually do for Carter and other presidents. Sacajawea dollars technically ended in 2008, but in 2009 the "Native American dollars" picked up where they left off, and still have Sacajawea on them, so can you say they truly ended? And I'm not counting the various quarter designs which are still Washington quarters (though technically next year 4 out of the 5 quarters won't have Washington on them lol, but it's a single year thing, so...) So... Lincoln cents may be... first US coin series, intended for mass circulation, that I'm old enough to know they're ending, to end in my lifetime. I mean... lot of qualifies there lol, but that's kind of something isn't it?

Still don't know when the true last penny will be minted, but there will still be more next year; they haven't said anything yet about 2027 and later. So we'll see I guess. 2027 may be the actual first year proof and uncirculated sets don't have pennies in them. Unless they still put them in there, so who knows yet.