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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26600471, member: 4626"]Who knows. All they've said is it will be in uncirculated and proof sets, and they're not minting any for general circulation. Whether they'll sell them in bags and rolls separately from those sets, they've kind of hinted they might but they've not explicitly said they intend on it. Their announcement of the Semiquincentennial stuff put them in the same category as the half dollars, which they usually sell in rolls and bags, and separate from the nickel, which will be made for circulation, which suggests it as a possibility, but they've not explicitly said that's their intention.</p><p><br /></p><p>So how many will actually be made? Who knows. Definitely a lot less than 2025 pennies. Whether or not that means people will be obsessed with them and the value of them will spike, well... in the short term they probably will, based on what's going on with 2025 pennies, but I'm not sure how sustainable that will be in the long term.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate I expect 2026 annual sets will sell well just based on the novelty of single-year designs anyway. The penny is just a nice bonus.</p><p><br /></p><p>No mention of whether or not pennies will still be in uncirculated and proof sets in 2027 and beyond... the bill that gets rid of the penny says they still can be made "for numismatic purposes" but the Mint hasn't specified their intention for the penny past 2026. So who knows what the true last year for the penny will be. All that can be known for sure is it will made for at least one more year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 26600471, member: 4626"]Who knows. All they've said is it will be in uncirculated and proof sets, and they're not minting any for general circulation. Whether they'll sell them in bags and rolls separately from those sets, they've kind of hinted they might but they've not explicitly said they intend on it. Their announcement of the Semiquincentennial stuff put them in the same category as the half dollars, which they usually sell in rolls and bags, and separate from the nickel, which will be made for circulation, which suggests it as a possibility, but they've not explicitly said that's their intention. So how many will actually be made? Who knows. Definitely a lot less than 2025 pennies. Whether or not that means people will be obsessed with them and the value of them will spike, well... in the short term they probably will, based on what's going on with 2025 pennies, but I'm not sure how sustainable that will be in the long term. At any rate I expect 2026 annual sets will sell well just based on the novelty of single-year designs anyway. The penny is just a nice bonus. No mention of whether or not pennies will still be in uncirculated and proof sets in 2027 and beyond... the bill that gets rid of the penny says they still can be made "for numismatic purposes" but the Mint hasn't specified their intention for the penny past 2026. So who knows what the true last year for the penny will be. All that can be known for sure is it will made for at least one more year.[/QUOTE]
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