Heads or…tails?

July 20, 2010 • 11:29 am • POSTED BY anna hartley

I am a skeptic of pennies to begin with (I’ve been know to throw them away when they get too jangly in my pocket), but yesterday I was surprised to notice the sudden appearance of an entirely new penny design. Naturally, I consulted the internet. Turns out that starting in February 2010, the Department of Treasury began minting pennies with new tails-side design that features an image of the union shield, which is “emblematic of President Lincoln’s preservation of the United States of America as a single and united country”.   This is the third redesign of the tails-side of our penny–first was the wheat penny from 1909-1958, then the Lincoln memorial design from 1959-2008, and now this. As long as it doesn’t affect my pressed penny collection, I think I’ll be all right.