New Lincoln penny designs unveiled

[The Straight Story]

New Lincoln penny designs unveiled

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- For the first time in 50 years, the U.S. penny is getting redesigned, announced the U.S. Mint Monday. While the coin will continue to depict President Lincoln's likeness on the front, the reverse side will will bear one of four new designs.

The four new coins depict the life of the 16th president: the Kentucky log cabin of his birth, his youth working as an Indiana rail splitter, his service at the State Capitol in Illinois, and his work to unify the country as depicted by a half-finished image of the U.S. Capitol dome.

The first of the coins debuts on Feb. 12, 2009, with the others following in three-month intervals. The release date coincides with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth and comes a century after the production of the original Lincoln cent.

The Lincoln cent was first issued on Aug. 2, 1909 in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birth, 100 years earlier. It was the first circulating coin to not only feature a real person but to feature a United States president.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/22/news/economy/US_onecent/?postversion=2008092212

(links to the designs at above link)

[corkhead]

1. how many boxcar loads will it take to buy a loaf of bread when it is finally released?

[nichomachus]

2. I hope they're printing them on cardboard

Since pretty soon they'll be worth less than pebbles.

[maxsolomon]

3. they should be phasing the penny out of existence.

not redesigning obsolete currency.

they don't have pennies in zimbabwe anymore.

[zbdent]

4. I thought it would feature Reagan's face ...

oh, wait ... they only want to eliminate Dem presidents ... that would be the dime.

[fla nocount]

7. It's not a joke, DeLay was pushing legislation to replace FDR's head with Reagan's.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=1159

[SmokingJacket]

5. The one with Lincoln reading a book is AWESOME!! nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. What's it going to be made of - aluminum?

recycled tin cans?

[DFW]

8. First CIRCULATING coin with a president on it, correct

George Washington appeared with LaFayette on a commemoreative silver
dollar in 1900, and the recently assassinated President William McKinley
appeared on a commemorative gold dollar in 1903, but neither coin was
intended for circulation, although many of the Lafayette dollars ended
up circulating anyway.

[pansypoo53219]

9. i think the yapping about how much penny is BS.

how much LESS does the dime/quarter/dollar coin cost? they can make up the loss there.

do they still make 50¢ coins?