Happy birthday, Abe!
In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday today and the 100th anniversary of his image gracing the front of the penny, the U.S. Mint has issued new designs for the back of that ubiquitous coin. The first of the four designs goes into circulation today and a new design will be issued about every three months.
The reverse designs featured on the series of circulating coins are emblematic of four periods, or themes, in the life of Abraham Lincoln: his birth and early childhood in Kentucky; his formative years in Indiana; his professional life in Illinois; and his presidency in Washington, D.C. The coins will be issued in approximately three-month intervals.
And it sounds like the Mint will be issuing a permanent new design for the penny at the end of this year.
At the conclusion of the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent Program, the 2010 (and beyond) one-cent coin will feature a reverse design that will be emblematic of President Lincoln’s preservation of the United States of America as a single and united country.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
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