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US Mint to Unveil Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Coin Designs
Nov 17 at 1:01pm
United States Mint Deputy Director Andy Brunhart will unveil the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Coin designs on Wednesday, November 19, 2008, at 10:30 a.m. (ET), during the Dedication Day Ceremony at Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The ceremony and unveiling will take place on the 145th anniversary of the day that Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address. Surcharges from sales of the coins are authorized to be paid to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to further its work.
A full agenda of events is planned to mark the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and the dedication of Soldiers’ National Cemetery. Prior to the Dedication Day Program, there will be a wreath laying at 10:15 a.m (ET) at Soldiers’ National Monument in Gettysburg National Cemetery. Following the wreath laying ceremony, attendees may walk to the Rostrum at Soldiers’ National Cemetery to participate in the Dedication Day Ceremony, where Deputy Director Brunhart will unveil the designs for the new Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Coin. Read the rest of this entry »
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Country Takes Notice of New Cent Designs - NumisMaster
Oct 9 at 10:10pm
The public got its first glimpse of the new Lincoln cent reverse designs on Sept. 22. U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy and Jim Rubin, an Abraham Lincoln look-alike, revealed them on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
The new designs are meant for four 2009 circulating cents in honor of the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth and the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln cent. They each mark a different phase in Lincoln’s life:
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Mastering the penny - The Advance Titan
Oct 7 at 10:10pm
Every American is familiar with the penny. The little copper coin bearing a bust of President Lincoln resides in many a wallet and penny jar across the country.Most Americans use coins every day, but they probably don’t think about the process of designing and minting the coins. Richard Masters, an art professor at UW-Oshkosh, was the same way for a long time.
He said, “You know, when we were kids collecting coins, you never thought about the artist behind the design on there. You thought the coin gods are doing this, or somebody you never heard of. And when you see your own work on something like that it just seems to make the world smaller.”
Read article: Mastering the penny - The Advance Titan
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Architect urged mint to employ good cents - sj-r.com
Sep 30 at 8:08pm
Earl Wallace Henderson doesn’t give up easily. As a fledgling architect, “Wally” Henderson designed the restoration of the Old State Capitol in the 1960s, when skeptics said it couldn’t be done.
Now, 40 years later, Henderson has triumphed again. Thanks to him, the building he saved will appear on millions of commemorative pennies due to be issued next year.
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Got Some Extra Pennies Lying Around? - Susan’s Coins Blog
Sep 26 at 6:06pm
Virtually everyone in America has spare pennies accumulating someplace (unless you throw them in the trash regularly, like some folks claim to do.) Well, now we have something productive to do with all of those cast-off cents. An artist in Austin, Texas has developed a simple craft kit…
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Lincoln Cent Designs for 2009 Pennies Discussed in Press: Video
Sep 24 at 7:07pm
The mainstream press picked up and ran with the U.S. Mint’s promotion of Lincoln penny images and the new coins to honor the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth and the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln cent in 2009.
Nearly every major outlet had something to say about the four commemorative coins. And, why not? It’s not every day a circulating U.S. coin gets a 50-year-old makeover.
Read article: Lincoln Cent Designs for 2009 Pennies Discussed in Press: Video
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The new Lincoln pennies are dishonest about Honest Abe - WalletPop Blog
Sep 24 at 7:07pm
The U.S. Mint is officially the P.T. Barnum of currency. It’s addicted to showmanship. Yesterday, in a heartwarmingly goofy ceremony at Washington DC’s Lincoln Memorial, an actor dressed as Abe unveiled its four new designs for the penny, all of which will be released in 2009 to commemorate the 200th birthday of the put-upon Civil War president. They’re just the latest pocket party favors for our ongoing patriotic fervor.
Read article: The new Lincoln pennies are dishonest about Honest Abe - WalletPop Blog
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New penny designed partly in Philadelphia - Philadelphia Inquirer
Sep 23 at 8:08pm
As a teen, Charles Vickers, a sculptor/engraver for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, had to split firewood using a wedge and a wood-headed hammer called a maul.
So, a few years ago, when the mint assigned him to submit one of four new designs for the penny, an image immediately came to the Jenkintown gentleman’s mind: Lincoln’s reading a book while taking a break from splitting logs with a double-banded maul.
Read article: New penny designed partly in Philadelphia - Philadelphia Inquirer
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A new penny, but why? - Los Angeles Times
Sep 23 at 8:08pm
In honor of the upcoming bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the U.S. Mint is giving the 100-year-old Lincoln penny a new look. The front will continue to show his profile, but the Lincoln Memorial on the back will be replaced by images that are intended to evoke different aspects of his life, such as a log cabin and young Abe sitting on a log, reading. This is expected to create a big buzz in the coin-collecting world, but in truth, the only makeover the penny needs is a disappearing act.
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Penny to see facelift in 2009 with four new designs - American Chronicle
Sep 23 at 8:08pm
Four newly designed Lincoln pennies will be issued by the U.S. government starting in 2009. The new circulating pennies will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln cent.
The Lincoln reverse coin designs were unveiled by United States Mint Director Ed Moy Monday during a news conference at the Lincoln Memorial. (See Lincoln penny photos up close.) They mark the first design change for the penny in 50 years.
Read article: Penny to see facelift in 2009 with four new designs - American Chronicle
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Lincoln Penny Design Images for 2009 Circulating Cents
Sep 22 at 9:09pm
2009 Lincoln penny design images were revealed by U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy Monday morning during a news conference at the Lincoln Memorial. The four reverse designs celebrate a different aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s life: his birth and childhood in Kentucky, his formative years in Indiana, his professional life in Illinois and his Presidency in Washington, D.C.
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PNG President Praises New Penny, But Doubts Practicality
Sep 22 at 9:09pm
The introduction next year of new designs for the common Lincoln cent is being praised by a coin expert, but he doubts the practicality of pennies in pocket change.
“The Mint has been producing cents for circulation for 215 years since 1793 and they’re fun to collect, but the usefulness of one-cent denomination coins is questionable. Pennies may go the way of the two-cent, three-cent and twenty-cent denomination coins that were eliminated in the 1800’s,” said Gary Adkins of Edina…
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United States Mint Unveils New 2009 Penny Designs
Sep 22 at 1:01pm
WASHINGTON - The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Plaza was the backdrop today for the unveiling, by United States Mint Director Ed Moy, of four new designs for the circulating 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent Coins. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Co-Chairman Harold Holzer joined Director Moy for the unveiling.
(Editor addition: see 2009 Lincoln cent design photos.)
Authorized by Public Law 109-145, the four new designs celebrate the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth, as well as the 100th anniversary of the production of the Lincoln cent (penny). The new designs will be issued in approximately three-month intervals throughout the year. The first redesigned penny, which will honor Lincoln’s birth and early childhood, will be put into circulation on February 12, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
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Penny to Undergo First Design Change in 50 Years
Sep 12 at 11:11pm
United States Mint Director to Unveil New 2009 Penny Designs Honoring Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
United States Mint Director Ed Moy and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission will hold a news conference at the Lincoln Memorial on Monday, September 22, to unveil the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent designs-the first time the image on the penny has changed in 50 years. Read the rest of this entry »
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