Lincoln Penny 2009 Designs Unveiled September 22
The United States Mint announced in a media advisory Friday that it will reveal the 2009 Lincoln penny designs during a news conference at the Lincoln Memorial on Monday, September 22.
(Editor’s update on 9/22/08: view penny design images here.)
The news event will be hosted by Mint Director Ed Moy and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Four pennies with different reverse designs will be released in 2009 to celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln cent.
While the obverse or heads side of the penny will remain unchanged, the 2009 pennies will bear new reverse images for the first time in 50 years. In 1959, the currently used Memorial reverse replaced the well known Wheat Ears design.
