These special coins will be produced for numismatic purposes and will be included in the US Mint’s annual coin sets. The composition of the Lincoln Cents will be 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc.

Where can you find these Bronze 2009 Lincoln Cents?

Currently these special coins are expected to be included in four different sets. The first two are the 2009 Proof Set and 2009 Silver Proof Set, which will include bronze cents produced by the San Francisco Mint with a proof finish. So far the US Mint has released the regular proof set, with the silver version on the way in mid-July.

At an undetermined date, the US Mint will release the Lincoln Coin and Currency Set. This special set will contain the 2009 Proof Lincoln Commemorative and the four different 2009 Proof Lincoln Cents with the 95% copper composition.

Finally, the US Mint will include bronze composition cents in the 2009 Mint Set. These coins will be minted at Philadelphia and Denver and have the satin finish used for Mint Set coins.

The launch ceremony takes place about a week after the coins were released into circulation and went on sale at the US Mint in rolls and bags. The Guam Quarter mintage has gotten some attention as being the lowest for the new District of Columbia and US Territories Quarters program to date.

Children who attened the ceremony received a free Guam Quarter. Other attendees had the opportunity to exchnage bills for rolls of new coins. A coin forum hosted by Director Moy was held prior to the ceremony.

Some interesting quotes from Mr. Moy during the event:

It’s important for me to be in Guam and important for the mint to produce the Guam quarter because it will bring a lot of attention to Guam and to people who have not given this much thought.

We choose to put a design on the front and a design on the back in order to educate Americans about things that they need to know.

The Guam quarter is a tribute to your rich history and culture, and the inventive and adventurous Chamorro people. Your quarter is as distinctive as the island that it celebrates.

The latest data released was for the Guam Quarter. There were only 42,600,000 coins produced at the Denver Mint and 45,000,000 coins produced at the Philadelphia Mint. The total between the mints of 87,600,000 is less than half the number of coins produced for the District of Columbia Quarter.

These low numbers are starting to draw attention, but do they have farther to fall? The next quarters to be released will feature American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

This set contains one proof coin version of each of the coins issued for circulation during 2009. Because of the programs for the Presidential Dollar, DC & US Territories Quarters, and 2009 Lincoln Cents, the number of coins in the set will be vastly expanded from prior years. A total of 18 coins will be included.  This is an increase of 4 from the prior year set which included 14 coins.

I am looking forward to the 2009 proof set since it has become an annual tradition for collectors. These sets make great holiday or birthday gifts. They can also be particularly special gifts for newborns, since it contains all of the coins for the birth year.

The new coin will represent an interesting twist for the series. President John Tyler had a first and second wife, while serving as President. As such, two first spouses will be honored for his presidential term. The Letitia Tyler coin is the first release for such an instance. John Tyler’s second wife Julia Tyler will be honored on a separate coin this summer.

The Letitia Tyler First Spouse Coin features a portrait of the first lady on the obverse of the coin and the years that she served 1841 to 1842. The reverse of the coin shows her with two children on Cedar Grove Plantation. So far the series has released nine gold coins. The Letitia Tyler coin will be the tenth. The release date for the coin will be June 4, 2009. Coins will be available for sale direclty from the United States Mint.

The obverse of the John Tyler Dollar features a portrait of the 10th president designed and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill. The reverse of the coin carries the same design of the Statue of Liberty used for all other Presidential Dollar coins.

The final mintages will represent the lowest combined mintage for a single issue of the Presidential Dollar coins series. The mintages have fallen steadily throughout the series, slipping below 100 million for the first time with the release of the William Henry Harrison Presidential Dollar. The mintage for the coin honoring John Tyler appear below.

John Tyler Presidential Dollar Mintage

The first design was released on February 12, 2009 and featured a log cabin. This reprented the birth and early childhood of Lincoln. This second design pictured above represents his formative years. A young Abraham Lincoln is shown taking a break from splitting rails to read a book. This design was created by Charles Vickers.

The release date for the Rail Splitter Lincoln Cent will be May 14, 2009. There is an official lanucn ceremony planned in Lincoln City, Indiana. People who attend the ceremony will have the opportunity to exchange bills for coins. The US Mint will also sell a two roll set of the new coins on the same day.

As a result of the recession, more old coinage has re-entered circulation, reducing the need for new coins. Apparently this glut of old coinage is so severe that the US Mint is willing to end production of two denominations for the remainder of the year.

The nickel in particular has very low mintages and seems destined to become a minor rarity. To date, I have not seen one report of anyone having a 2009 Jefferson Nickel in hand. Since production has ended for the coin, we already have an idea of the final mintages, which are shown below.

2009 Jefferson Nickel Mintage

Due to a record number of old coins re-entering circulation combined with a general decline in the need to more circulating coins, there has been a glut of coinage at the Federal Reserve Banks. This has caused them to cut orders for new coinage at the US Mint. The US Mint has accordingly reduced production.

Recently the US Mint officially announced that production of the 2009 dimes would end for the rest of the year. This results in final mintages available already. The numbers are low enough to excite collectors looking for a possible key date coin.

The figures shown below are the reported coin production figures for January through April 2009. Most likely these will be the final mintages for the year.

2009 Roosevelt Dime Mintage

]]> http://coinblog.org/2009-roosevelt-dime/feed/ http://coinblog.org/2009-birthplace-lincoln-penny-mintage/ http://coinblog.org/2009-birthplace-lincoln-penny-mintage/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:00:48 +0000 admin http://coinblog.org/?p=148 The mintage for the 2009 “Birthplace” Lincoln Cent has been revealed. Following the pattern set by several other coins released this year, the coin has one of the lowest mintages in decades. Previously the mintage for the Puerto Rico Quarter was revealed and it had the lowest mintage for a quarter since the 1960s.

The Philadelphia Mint produced 284.8 million of the 2009-P Birthplace Lincoln Cent. The Denver Mint produced 350 million of the 2009-D Birthplace Lincoln Cent. This makes a combined total of 634.8 million.

It looks like the high prices paid for these coins might actually be justified. Since 1975, all Lincoln Cents struck for circulation have had mintages in the billions. You have to go back all the way to the 1968-S Lincoln Cent to find a lower mintage than the 2009-P Birthplace Lincoln Cent.

Will the pattern of low mintages continue? You can follow the 2009 Lincoln Cent Mintages and see for yourself.