The year 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the United States’ most respected leaders, Abraham Lincoln. Like some of his presidential predecessors and successors, Lincoln’s image can be found on American currency, notably the five-dollar bill, and for the past 100 years, on the American penny, or cent.
As part of the Lincoln bicentennial celebrations, the U.S. Mint released in 2009 a series of four pennies which, on the reverse side of the coin, depicted various stages of the statesman’s life. The 109th U.S. Congress passed the “Presidential Dollars, Buffalo gold, and Lincoln Cent coin Act” in 2005, which laid out the details for minting the commemorative series.
As part of the Lincoln bicentennial celebrations, the U.S. Mint released in 2009 a series of four pennies which, on the reverse side of the coin, depicted various stages of the statesman’s life. The 109th U.S. Congress passed the “Presidential Dollars, Buffalo gold, and Lincoln Cent coin Act” in 2005, which laid out the details for minting the commemorative series.
