The Last Penny Will Apparently Be Minted Today - Mark This Date

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  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Here's my one and only keepsake.

    Notice the flag-less First Strike label,


  • seanq
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    @Onastone said:

    I think they’ll stop circulating pretty quickly based on Canada’s experience. Banks will still accept them just like they do other obsolete coinage. I guess the pulled cents will be melted but I don’t recall seeing specifically what the U.S. plans to do with the billions of cents that get sent their way by banks once withdrawn from circulation.

    So is this the route the pennies will take? Customers return them to the bank, the bank returns them to the government, they in turn melt them? And those holding onto theirs will just remain trapped in jars and drums...

    Also, to all those cashiers out there, what will that cash register drawer cent space be used for now? Paperclips?

    Shift everything one space to the left and make room for dollar coins.

    Sean Reynolds

    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

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  • FlyingAl
    FlyingAl Posts: 4,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I saw a video that showed the last 5 cents struck on a tray, looks like they are going to be kept for some purpose.

    It also appeared the director held them face on between two fingers, so grade is probably around 64.

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  • Hyperion
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    @FlyingAl said:
    I saw a video that showed the last 5 cents struck on a tray, looks like they are going to be kept for some purpose.

    It also appeared the director held them face on between two fingers, so grade is probably around 64.

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  • Hyperion
    Hyperion Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭
    edited November 12, 2025 7:52PM
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    No delete button for my post :(

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  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    if it wasn't dipped already, what's the chances it's ruined already?

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  • World67
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    Oh, look at the fingerprints.

    I wonder how that happened.



  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    it will be easy to identify the committer of the crime

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  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @MsMorrisine said:
    it will be easy to identify the committer of the crime

    More like committers. 😎

  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    how did those flowing hair gold survive?

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  • RedRocket
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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Mint said there gonna auction off the last 2 cents made. I wonder what kinda crazy money that will bring?

  • Goldminers
    Goldminers Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 13, 2025 1:51AM
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    I expect these to be auctioned at Stacks in a few months. Will be an amazing event.

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  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wonder if the die (s) will be sold. Cancelled of course. Probably go for a "pretty penny".

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  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Morgan White said:

    Oh, look at the fingerprints.

    I wonder how that happened.



    I think that operator in the background has his eye on the cent.😀

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  • Overdate
    Overdate Posts: 7,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 13, 2025 3:07AM
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    By my count, there are 55 coins in a complete set of Lincoln Shield cents (2010-2025). Fifteen of them have mintages under one million.

    The lowest mintage is the 2017-S Enhanced Uncirculated at 210,419, from the 225th Anniversary set, and it is available on eBay for about $15. That's less than half the mintage of the 1909-S VDB, which sells for about $750 in VG.

  • Onastone
    Onastone Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Was there no one there that would recommend gloves? I hate fingerprintz....grrrrrrrrrr :/

  • ernie11
    ernie11 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Couldn't they have invited one of us there to remind them not to put their fingerprints on a last-strike that they plan to auction?

  • RedStorm
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    @Hyperion said:

    Said 🫆 :)

    Gives a whole new meaning to “mint mark”… 🙃

  • World67
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    @ernie11 said:
    Couldn't they have invited one of us there to remind them not to put their fingerprints on a last-strike that they plan to auction?

    When you know, you know.


  • BLUEJAYWAY
    BLUEJAYWAY Posts: 11,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Would of been interesting if the last cent was of the error type. Double struck,off center etc.

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  • JBK
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    @Morgan White said:

    @ernie11 said:
    Couldn't they have invited one of us there to remind them not to put their fingerprints on a last-strike that they plan to auction?

    When you know, you know.


    I'll bet he has the real "last cent" tucked away.

  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @JBK said:

    @Morgan White said:

    @ernie11 said:
    Couldn't they have invited one of us there to remind them not to put their fingerprints on a last-strike that they plan to auction?

    When you know, you know.


    I'll bet he has the real "last cent" tucked away.

    My mind wanders and it's not good.......

  • jt88
    jt88 Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 13, 2025 9:48AM
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    This should make some of the cent mint error more collectible because no more new cent mint error to show up.

  • privatecoin
    privatecoin Posts: 3,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    When will the last cent be minted?

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • logger7
    logger7 Posts: 9,862 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The US mint has always had their profits and bottom line in mind and this will be no different with likely seven figure auction results.

  • BStrauss3
    BStrauss3 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    BTW, these are not the last, just the last circulation strikes. Read the mint's presser:

    https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/united-states-mint-hosts-historic-ceremonial-strike-for-final-production-of-the-circulating-one-cent-coin

    PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12, 2025 — The United States Mint (Mint) hosted a ceremonial strike event today at its Philadelphia facility where United States Treasurer Brandon Beach struck the final, circulating one-cent coin (penny). The event marks the official end of the penny’s 232-year production run as a circulating coin.

    and

    The Mint will continue to produce numismatic versions of the penny in limited quantities for historical and collector purposes.

    -----Burton
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  • JBK
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    It would be nice if they went back to bronze for future collector versions.

  • olympicsos
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    @JBK said:
    It would be nice if they went back to bronze for future collector versions.

    Or brought back large cents

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @olympicsos said:

    Or brought back large cents

    And what would that cost the gov't to make?!? 🤣 😉

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • olympicsos
    olympicsos Posts: 990 ✭✭✭✭
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    @OAKSTAR said:

    @olympicsos said:

    Or brought back large cents

    And what would that cost the gov't to make?!? 🤣 😉

    Numismatic products that make money and not for circulation.

  • Batman23
    Batman23 Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @JBK said:
    It would be nice if they went back to bronze for future collector versions.

    Personally, they should no longer be made. The era is over, no need to drag it on. That said, if they insist on making them for the proof sets and such, I agree with making them out of bronze. Make the Cent Great Again!

  • JBK
    JBK Posts: 17,867 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    They make lots of "business strikes" of coins for collectors that are not minted for circulation.

    The cent is technically still in circulation. The mint just won't be striking any new ones for circulation.

  • Onastone
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  • Goldbully
    Goldbully Posts: 18,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Kinda cool.........................



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