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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NMBSURFER1, post: 741291, member: 19951&quot;]Below are the mintage&#039;s just for the initial offering of the four Lincolns.&nbsp; Just based on this, my answer would have to be no.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fourth and final redesigned 2009 Lincoln cent <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/11/12/2009-lincoln-presidency-cent-launch-in-washington-dc/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/11/12/2009-lincoln-presidency-cent-launch-in-washington-dc/" rel="nofollow">launched in Washington, D.C.</a>, on Thursday, Nov. 12. By the following Sunday and according to the latest US Mint sales report, 153,427 of the two-roll sets were scooped up by collectors. Crunching the numbers and moving the decimal point, that is <b>15.3 million pennies</b>. During the same initial days following the launch of the previous two pennies, 15.2 million of the third <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/08/19/152-million-lincoln-professional-life-cents-sold-in-four-days/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/08/19/152-million-lincoln-professional-life-cents-sold-in-four-days/" rel="nofollow">Professional Life cents sold</a>, and 20 million of the second <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/05/19/20-million-lincoln-rail-splitter-pennies-sold-in-four-days/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/05/19/20-million-lincoln-rail-splitter-pennies-sold-in-four-days/" rel="nofollow">Rail Splitter pennies sold</a>. </p><p>&nbsp;In contrast, it took almost two weeks for collectors to purchase 9.6 million of the first 2009 Lincoln Birthplace cents — although these set the demand tone for the next three cents when the Mint unexpectedly <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/03/27/lincoln-silver-dollars-and-cent-rolls-sell-out/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/2009/03/27/lincoln-silver-dollars-and-cent-rolls-sell-out/" rel="nofollow">stopped selling</a> them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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