What is the most popular US coin collected by coin collectors?
If your answer is: the lowly Lincoln cent, you are right! Many a coin collector started out by building a set of Lincoln pennies. Perhaps you are one of them. First minted in 1909, the Lincoln cent will soon reach its 100th birthday. And what a birthday celebration its expected to be. Congress and our President have signed into law a bill that will change the Lincoln cent design in 2009. Not just one new design, but four new cent designs are scheduled. (All 4 coins are to be issued during the same year, 2009.) Back in the year 1909 our country celebrated the 100th birthday of our famous president Abraham (Abe) Lincoln. To commemorate that event and honor the occasion, congress authorized a change in the copper penny design. Mid-year in 1909 the government stopped printing the Indian Head cent and began a new 1cent copper coin. It featured Lincolns portrait on the obverse(front) and Wheat straws on the reverse (back). At the time, some expected that Lincolns head on the 1 cent coin was
