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things we would like to see to spice up the 2009 100 year lincoln cent

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  • nederveitnederveit Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭
    eliminate it all together...
  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,870 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would like the portrait turned around to face the opposite direction. Just imagine the claims of finding a rare reverse image lincoln cent in change. Also time to think about a new reverse- maybe the flying eagle on the reverse or a tin lizzie? And change it's value to 2 or 2 1/2 cents.
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  • evilclayevilclay Posts: 173
    Put him in a top hat and on the back a log cabin!
    Hey, Im new at this so cut me some slack!!
  • CratonCraton Posts: 2,670
    Ben Franklin on the cent.
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    A return of the original obverse and wheat reverse. Also a matte proof...Mike
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  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Matte proof 2009 VDB's and gem unc 2009-S VDB cents! Then eliminate the denomination.

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  • AU58WALKERSAU58WALKERS Posts: 3,562 ✭
    get rid of ALL dead people off the coins.
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭


    << <i>Matte proof 2009 VDB's and gem unc 2009-S VDB cents! Then eliminate the denomination. >>



    Sounds liek what I was thinking too.

    While we're at it, drop the quarter then as the states get done (and the nickel of course).
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  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was thinking something along the lines of Lady Liberty bent over a wheelbarrow while Uncle Sam gives it to her straight up the pickle barrel.
    mirabela
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    COLORIZE HIM !!!
    ENAMEL HIM !!!

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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    A clean shaven Mr. Lincoln
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Cool. Never trust a guy with a beard.
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  • BurksBurks Posts: 1,103 ✭


    << <i>A return of the original obverse and wheat reverse. Also a matte proof...Mike >>



    I agree 100%. Bring back the wheat reverse please!
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  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭
    End the lincoln cent in 2009. I am just starting to collect this series.
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  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wheat ears reverse for sure in '09.

    Then end it.
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,698 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No more dead presidents...bring back Liberty!
    All glory is fleeting.
  • JcarneyJcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭
    I'd like to see a business strike 2009S VDB in the original copper composition with the wheat reverse, original obverse (no spaghetti hair) and a mintage of 484,000.
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  • kimon1230kimon1230 Posts: 747 ✭✭
    How about a pink or red gold reverse proof penny?
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  • toreador74toreador74 Posts: 201 ✭✭


    << <i> Ben Franklin on the cent. >>



    I'm for that - a penny saved is a penny earned, after all.
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Matte proofs of the original design or a 2009-S VDB in silver would be really cool.
    We need more reasons to send the mint our money.image
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  • DJCDJC Posts: 787 ✭


    << <i>Matte proof 2009 VDB's and gem unc 2009-S VDB cents! Then eliminate the denomination. >>



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  • pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭
    a dileberate double die.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Why are you folks even bothering to discuss what you would like to see on it when the program and themes were all outlined in legislation passed and signed into law almost a year ago? There aren't going to be any wheat ears, and Lincolns not going to change. The law requires the original Brenner design on the obverse (I'm sure as modified by the mint for striking purposes) and the reverse will have four different designs, one symbolizing his childhood in KY, one for his formative years in IN, one for his adulthood in IL, and one for his presidency in Washington DC. They will be struck in whatever they use for business strikes that year, and coins in collector sets can also be struck in the original bronze composition. A potential of up to 24 different varieties of cent.
  • Moose1913Moose1913 Posts: 402 ✭✭✭
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    1952 Lincoln Cent

    The following information is courtesy of Roger Burdette.

    In December 1951 sculptor James E. Fraser, designer of the Buffalo nickel and several commemorative coins, sent unsolicited obverse and reverse designs for a new Lincoln cent to Director Nellie Tayloe Ross. Upon viewing the models, Director Ross wrote, "...It is with a real thrill of admiration and appreciation I behold these beautiful productions of your art. The portrait of Lincoln impresses me as being incomparably better than the one now impressed upon the one-cent piece."

    The obverse featured a large scale portrait of Lincoln, not unlike Fraser's 1911 concept. The reverse showed an oak tree, "...as a symbol because Lincoln was a woodsman...It stands too for strength, ever renewing growth, and unity. Like a nation, it has roots, a trunk, branches, flowers and finally fruit."

    Director Ross was so impressed that she convinced the Secretary of the Treasury to permit pattern coins to be struck. Forty-six pieces were coined on May 7, 1952 and another 100 were made from dies of slightly lower relief on June 19. Although Ross, the Secretary and others gave strong support to the new Lincoln cent design, the change was not to occur. Demand for coinage surged and the Mint Bureau could barely keep up with normal production: the project was scrapped in March 1953.

    The 146 pattern cents were certified as being destroyed on March 16, 1953, the dies were locked in the Engraver's safe and the models stuck in storage at the Philadelphia Mint. In 1995, numismatist Bill Fivaz chanced to photograph the obverse model.

    Photo attached is by Bill Fivaz. It is not known whether the photo is of a galvano or a colored plaster model. (Would this or a similar portrait be a suitable replacement on the cent in 1909?)
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  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    wheat reverse would be neat.
  • JcarneyJcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭


    << <i>Why are you folks even bothering to discuss... >>



    'cause it's fun?
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  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A one ounce gold version! In proof, UNC, and Special Uncirculated. And reverse proof. Wheat, memorial, and VDB editions.
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    Lincoln shouldn't have gone drinkin' if he gets mean with liquor and starts picking fights.
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