I just saw one yesterday (yea, this topic is boring.... ) and immediately noticed it's smaller and thinner. Also someone commented on this was the last year for pennies??!!!??

huh? what do you mean this is the last year for pennies???

really? hmm i had not hear that

granted, i didn't do a lot of looking, but it looks like the penny will be redesigned in 2010, not disappear.

Well.. the back is very different, log cabin on the back with 'e pluribus unum' on the back with 1809 underneath it wording indented instead of raised. Abe looks about the same, cheekbones a little more pronounced or gaunt? The penny is definitely a tad thinner
I look at coins, not a collector except weird ones and wheat pennies.
I just got 2 gold (plated?) 1/2 dollars, think they were probaly from some set and someone needed a beer.

I haven't noticed..I'll make a point of looking now though.

It has been suggested that the penny should be eliminated as a unit of currency for several reasons including that many Americans do not actually spend them, but rather only receive them in change at stores and proceed to return them to a bank for higher denomination currencies, or cash them in at coin counting kiosks.

Most modern vending machines do not accept pennies, further diminishing their utility, and the production cost now exceeds the face value of the coin due to increasing metal prices.

In 2001 and 2006, for example, United States Representative Jim Kolbe (R) of Arizona introduced bills which would have stopped production of pennies (in 2001 the Legal Tender Modernization Act, and in 2006 the Currency Overhaul for an Industrious Nation (COIN) Act).

Therefore it does indeed cost more than a penny to create a penny.

I think it's time to start saving all your pennies.

Did you notice that the newer pennies were more plastic-like than the older ones? Drop one on a hard surface and listen to the sound. Higher pitched, less dense.

I think that's because it has more zinc in it,they started using it around the 80's I think?The 2009 pennies with the log cabin on it and three others have something to do with Abe Lincoln anny. or something like that.1909 was the first year of the Lincoln penny and the 1909 S-VDB is worth a few bucks,the better the cond. the more it's worth.

Yes and the 1914VDS? (don't quote me, i'd have to go look it up then), from what I just read, is worth something like 2600.

I have a couple os steel ones and they're worth like....03.

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/lincolnredesign/index.cfm?flash=yes