jrf30
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It's official. The 2009 penny is HARD to find!
This article was in a paper in NJ. And it makes the offer by Cherry even nicer. :-)
<<A penny doesn't buy much anymore, and the debate continues over whether the mint should continue making them. But the new Lincoln bicentennial penny has become one of the hottest items in the collecting world.
These pennies are supposed to be circulating coins, but try to find one. Readers are telling me they can't get them at banks, and forget about getting one in your change.
They sold out quickly on the mint's website, at the premium price of $8.95 (plus $4.95 shipping and handling) for a dollar's worth of circulating quality coins, and the secondary market - both through dealers and websites such as eBay - has been brisk. Individual coins have been selling for several dollars. The mint's sales were limited for five sets per household.
Historians are recalling a similar frenzy when the first Lincoln pennies were issued in 1909, to mark the centennial of his birth.
(By the way, the Lincoln commemorative silver dollar also sold out.)
Given what happened with the first of the four new pennies - depicting Lincoln's early years in Kentucky with a log cabin on the reverse -- it may not be too early to develop a strategy for the release of the second penny, scheduled for May 14.
The second penny -- commemorating Lincoln's formative years in Indiana -- was designed and sculpted by Charles Vickers. On the reverse, it shows the railsplitter sitting on a log and reading a book, recalling that the 16th president was self-educated.
The third and fourth pennies - depicting his professional life in Illinois and his presidency -- will follow at approximately three-month intervals
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This article was in a paper in NJ. And it makes the offer by Cherry even nicer. :-)
<<A penny doesn't buy much anymore, and the debate continues over whether the mint should continue making them. But the new Lincoln bicentennial penny has become one of the hottest items in the collecting world.
These pennies are supposed to be circulating coins, but try to find one. Readers are telling me they can't get them at banks, and forget about getting one in your change.
They sold out quickly on the mint's website, at the premium price of $8.95 (plus $4.95 shipping and handling) for a dollar's worth of circulating quality coins, and the secondary market - both through dealers and websites such as eBay - has been brisk. Individual coins have been selling for several dollars. The mint's sales were limited for five sets per household.
Historians are recalling a similar frenzy when the first Lincoln pennies were issued in 1909, to mark the centennial of his birth.
(By the way, the Lincoln commemorative silver dollar also sold out.)
Given what happened with the first of the four new pennies - depicting Lincoln's early years in Kentucky with a log cabin on the reverse -- it may not be too early to develop a strategy for the release of the second penny, scheduled for May 14.
The second penny -- commemorating Lincoln's formative years in Indiana -- was designed and sculpted by Charles Vickers. On the reverse, it shows the railsplitter sitting on a log and reading a book, recalling that the 16th president was self-educated.
The third and fourth pennies - depicting his professional life in Illinois and his presidency -- will follow at approximately three-month intervals
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