2010 Lincoln Cent
2010 Lincoln Cent
The 2010 Lincoln Cent features a new reverse design which is expected to be used for the foreseeable future. The design is meant to be emblematic of Lincoln’s preservation of the United States as a single and unified country. The reverse features the union shield with thirteen vertical stripes and a horizontal bar with the motto “E Pluribus Unum”. This is intended to represent the thirteen original states joined as a single compact union. A banner draped across the shield bears the denomination “One Cent”. The reverse was designed by Lyndall Bass and sculpted by Joseph Menna. The obverse of the coin will continue to feature the portrait of Lincoln designed by Victor D. Brenner.
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Categories: 2010 United States Coin Releases, Featured, United States Cents
I like the simplicity of the shield BUT would have LOVED the wheat design.
Too bad WE the public, don’t get to VOTE on the designs. Just plain wrong I tell you.
Ratings:Another mediocre design.
Ratings:Looks like the coins is ike the 2 cent piece or the shield nickel
I can’t imagine it in color so I guess i have to see a picture.
Ratings:HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ratings:Lincoln is a sign of the “War of Northern Agression” to the south. Lincoln and his thugs invaded the south not the other way around. Most people forget that the Constitution of the Confederate States of American actually abolished slavery after the war. Few people in the south actually owned slaves… slavery was inefficient. In the north, new immigant were treated worse than slaves. A male slave in the south cost over $1,000 while immigant laborers in New York were paid less than $0.25 a day to work in mills and factories. Do the math! $1,000 to purchase a slave that you must feed, clothe, and house versus $91.25 a year for immigant labor that you don’t. If a slave got sick, you cared for it. If an immigant laborer got sick, he/she died. Recruiters for the Union Army met ships carrying Irish and German immigants at the dock in New York City. There immigants were told to enlist or face deportation… In the Union Army, “veteran” units were given priority for wew & weapons equipment. New Irish and German immigants were often sent into battle without weapons or training. At best they were given worn-out clothes and weapons picked up on the battlefield or turned in by “veteran” units. If life in Mr. Lincoln’s Army was so good why were immigants rioting in New York City because of forced transcription during 1862, 1863, and 1864. If Lincoln was alive today he would be tried for “Crimes Against Humanity”. His legacy was disease, famime, and death. Millions of died during the war but because history is written by the victor today few remember the millions who died in the South during the first two years of Union Occupation of famine and infectious diseases. More people died during these years of preventable cause than died during the entire war. All the while, Union troops gorged themselves on supplies “stolen” from the South. I repeat, Lincoln was a war criminal. Even today his legacy is famine and death. Perhaps we should choose another image for the penny…. Robert L. Lee, Jeb Stewart, Nathan B. Forest, Joe Shelby, even Bill Anderson would be better because they fought a war to protect their homes and families.
Ratings:Yuck! Couldn’t be worse. uninspired. Banal. completely lacking in esthetic appeal. perfunctory. boring. Actually depressing. Really offensive element: The E PLURIBUS UNUM “crown” on top of the shield connotes royalty… didn’t we start out by overthrowing the “crown”? … very sad misfire. I’m actually ashamed by it. After the ONE YEAR ONLY 2009 Ultra High Relief Saint Gaudens double eagle, touted as helarding our return to artistic coin design, we get THIS? When You think of how inspiring the Lincoln Memorial is compared to this atrocity … well … again … Yuck!
Better idea… keep the 50 year old reverse and update the 100 year old OBVERSE with a more closeup view of Mr. Lincoln. How does this poop happen?!
Ratings:Okay design. At least it’s a change from the Memorial. The obverse should have gotten an overhaul also. 100 years is enough and a good point in time to change.
Ratings:I like the design. It is a modern take on a traditional early American design. I would like to see a new portrait of lincoln though; the obverse of the coin has not changed in over 100 years. Glad they are finally doing some reverse side changes. What I would really like is for the coin to cease production. It costs more to manufacture than it’s face value; that does not make good economic sense. What I would like to see in the near future:
1- A 1$ coin that is of a decent size (Ike $) and doesn’t have a super thin plating that will wear off.
2- Re-structuring of US coinage into something that makes more sense in todays economy. Like (1$, 50c, 25c, 10c, 3c, 2c).
Ratings:this is my last chose of the 4- final design any of the other 3 woulod be better than this one. get a new committee — can you see what the dimes changes will be like????
Ratings:This outdated iconography doesn’t stir the soul anymore. In a time when you are bombarded with thousands of eye-catching images a day. A more graphically appealing and symbolic design is called for. C’mon people, you can do better than this!
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