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New "Tails" Side of 2009 Abraham Lincoln Penny (Pic)

news.yahoo.com — Here are the four of the designs under consideration to replace the 'tails' side of the Abraham Lincoln penny during the 2009 observance of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth and 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln penny. The designs will replace the engraving of the Lincoln Memorial on the 'tails' side of the coin.

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  • Bense, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27I prefer the log cabin monumental design.
    • Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11So would Senator Craig, I presume.
    • j3one, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I am going with the Jessica Biel one...
  • controltheweb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+111He was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands...
  • FreakyD, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33How much does it suck to be on the penny?
    • whataboutdave, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Oddly enough, he is often considered on of our best presidents. Go figure.
    • kageki, on 10/10/2007, -24/+2A black man showed this to me. Line up all the coins from the quarter to the penny side by side. You'll see that Lincoln faces his back to everyone besides just being on the penny. It's apparently a well-known thing within the black community that Lincoln is presented as a "traitor" in the coins.

      He is largely accredited for freeing the slave and he gets assassinated. JFK another President largely thought of as a great man and he also gets assassinated. It must be a coincidence right?
      • LLLSecretChimp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18The 13th ammendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the US. Lincoln was already dead.

        Eisenhower was the first president to enforce desegregation, and wasn't assassinated.
        • AxeSwinger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Knowing history is fun!!!

          /no sarcasm
        • nonymous666, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5He said nothing about Lincoln abolishing slavery. He said Lincoln is credited with freeing the slaves. A difference.
    • Eivo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Well, it is the foundation on which all over currency is valued. I don't think it would suck at all.
      • nodonoug, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Since all of the exchange rates are expressed in terms of USD, I would have to disagree with you...Washington owns that one.
    • Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I dunno; you see pennies more than most other currency. How much does it suck for Washington to be on the one dollar bill?
    • flareback, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1probably sucks less than not being on any value of money like you and I
      • SlowOnTheUptake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1OTOH, you have to be dead to be depicted on US currency.
    • burstaneurysm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9That's why they gave him the $5 too.
    • statrick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1more exposure in my opinion :P
  • ricperry1, on 10/10/2007, -8/+106They're making ANOTHER ONE??? Let's retire the penny since the metal it's made of is worth more! Besides, I HATE carrying and receiving pennies!
    • jobenly, on 10/10/2007, -12/+8I completely agree. Who actually stops to pick a penny up off the street?
      • Renniks, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27I do, learned it from my gramps who lived through the depression.
        • jobenly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21You could buy things with a penny back then.
        • EricSchC1, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5You can still by things with pennies.
          • wes00mertes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Of course, if you get 25 of them you can get a gum ball.
          • thugok, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"with pennies."

            Correct. But you can't get anything with a penny.
          • Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1BUY
      • wes00mertes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Back when pennies were worth something.
      • habbofresh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'll have to chime in and agree with the thread staring comment, and add i thought the cost of copper exceeded that of of the penny leading to in less than economical results in minting pennies.

        there is no need for more of these damn things.
    • brjndr, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Penny would be worth less than the metal to make them if they were still 100% copper. Now they have zinc and other stuff in them, making them cheaper.
      • nonymous666, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Regardless of what they're made of, they still cost more to make that what they're worth. If they were pure coppy, it would just be even more so. A quick google shows that it costs 0.6 cents in manufacturing costs for each penny - that's NOT including the actual metal.
      • slothlovechunk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They could make them out of dog ***** and it would probably still cost more than $0.01 to make.
    • dfeifer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Unfortunatly, the only reason pennies are even still around, big business won't let it die. This is actually one of the oldest advertising ploys, which is why pretty much everything you buy ends in a 9. ie. the current price of meals ar mcdonalds, 3.99 4.99 5.99 etc.
      • HonestAbe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+93.95, 4.95, 5.95
      • Azuroth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Right, because nothing costs $19.95......
      • sincewednesday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That's why half-pennies and mills are still around, so that gas stations can charge you $2.799/gal. Can we just stop minting the mill and the half-penny.
      • slothlovechunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yeah, it's a conspiracy theory!
        You're an idiot.
        All we have to do is round things at the cash register to the nearest $0.05. *****, I wouldn't care if we round it to the nearest $0.1. ***** nickels too. While we're at it, make dimes bigger. Why the ***** is a nickel bigger than a dime in the first place. Wankers...
      • Slungsolow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1currency conversion too
    • rodted2, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3make ya deal since you hate them so much... give em all to me. :)
  • ripstuntz, on 10/10/2007, -9/+12I'd be pissed if I were Abraham Lincoln.. the most worthless piece of currency known to man
    • atdigg, on 10/10/2007, -9/+5the metal is worth more than the face value of the coin.
      • nodonoug, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5not any more. they use 'filler' like zinc, so it's not 100% copper any more.
    • davestar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20I agree that we should stop minting pennies, but there are dozens, if not more, of less valuable types of coins in circulation around the world
      • bromac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Canadian Tire Money. I think I still have some of it in my drawer here...definitely in circulation. Some charities accept it to buy office supplies!
    • brstilson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I think the centavo is ever more worthless.
    • kageki, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1What really surprised me when I went to visit Barcelona is that they don't have pennies. The smallest coin is a nickel. It was really nice not having to carry a bunch of pennies around.
    • geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Maybe not to man, but to the American. It's an insult unless you want to think of it in terms of how many are currently in circulation in which case, it's probably a rather huge honor, something close to 200 billion pennies in circulation, roughly a third of a buck for every human on the planet. Poor George Washington.
    • fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17But he's on it twice, plus he's got the $5, which is a damn decent bill.
    • djphatjive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2yea but everyone has a penny. Not everyone has a 20 or a 50.
  • harumph, on 10/10/2007, -3/+37they all look like the fake state quarters that are made up for conan o'brien's show.
    these are cartoonishly crappy across the board.
  • Sayjumner, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3Why are we still making pennies? I want Half Nickels!
  • Slungsolow, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11I'll say it... I don't like it. No sir.
  • sanotaan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I say... let's find a way to rid ourselves of the penny altogether. (design #5)
    • Lister169, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1All it would take is an act of congress and they don't seem to be doing anything else currently...
  • OUChevelleSS, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6I thought the title was referring to Miles 'Tails' Prower.
    • TheAbsintheHare, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Rings have no space for such engravings!
  • AltDelete, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1In before outrage against the continued existence of the penny.

    Wait. nm.
  • wendeldiggs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Why is Chris Kattan on the first one? Weird.
    • fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That's Kattan's most popular character: gay Lincoln. I know, I don't remember that either.
    • gurp13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You guys! That's not Kattan, that's Frodo Baggins! Duh! Why would Chris Kattan be on the penny?!
  • adamjhwkfan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3We should just get rid of the penny all together!
  • catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26Pennies keep getting made because of the zinc lobby and the penny-industrial complex.
    • TheBogie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Noe, pennies are little petri dishes the government uses to collect our DNA. One day we will all be replaced by clones.
  • dylanmat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12You need pennies for ass pennies.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=P0hLR3EdDe4
  • melonhedd, on 10/10/2007, -7/+11It's called the reverse side, not the 'tails' side.
    • mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9I don't understand why people are digging you down, since that's actually correct. Here's something else for you: the heads side is known as the "obverse."
    • BGFeltenink, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You are indeed correct. Tails only refers to the quarter because of the eagle on the back.
      • Ndiggnation, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Great, so now when deciding something among friends, I have to whip out a coin and say, "Obverse or Reverse guys?!"..
        • mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If your friends are numismatists, yes, of course you do.
    • ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yea, but playing a game of Heads or Reverse-side sounds like retarded.
  • bib4tuna, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8filthy republican lincoln
    how about the one of him tazing douglas and rigging the election?
  • ncc74656m, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I want the hay penny back, dammit.
    • PyrotekNX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Its a wheat cent, not a hay penny. There is no such thing as an United States Penny, penny is what the English 1 cent coin was called.
  • Gamecheif, on 10/10/2007, -13/+0i think they should keep the penny the way it is, they give presidents to much glory like who da hell cares about a president who built his own cabin
  • gumbright, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Anyone else notice that they all say (the proper) motto "E Pluribus Unum". Tragically the retarded motto on the other side kind of ruins it.
  • jarvolt, on 10/10/2007, -12/+12Well, there's no "In God We Trust" on this coin, so that's a plus.
    • SkippyDoorknob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8The front of the penny will remain the same.
    • swicepick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10It's on the other side of the coin, like always.

      Check your pocket change before posting.
    • p51d007, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1dumbass........in GOD we trust has always been on the FRONT side, you atheistic moron.
  • Dustin00, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Is that the cabin he built with his own hands and was born in?
  • scottique, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5It'd have been semi-tasteless but totally awesome to have his wife on the Tail side.
  • WebWorker, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3These will signify the stick houses those in the US will be living in soon
  • heartcoldfusion, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2If they want to show what Lincoln was really like they should show him suspending Habeas Corpus, arresting dissenters, starting an unconstitutional war, and not really freeing the slaves with the emancipation proclamation.
    • dwright99, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I'm glad you said it. How about a Ford theater interior shot.
      The American Lenin.
  • photomike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Is it weird that I was really hoping itd be a picture of Lincoln's butt on the other side?
  • dMinor04, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4pennies' cost to produce > pennies' worth
  • Greyhaven7, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5They still make pennies? Why?
  • kurtwinter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Whats that like half a Canadian penny?
  • rsm3000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I really hope they chose one of the cabin deigns over one with an actual picture of Lincoln. Otherwise, there will be "heads" on both sides of the coin. Imagine a referee saying this at the beginning of a game: "this side with the big head and no body is heads, and this side with the smaller head and a body is tails." Or imagine explaining what heads means to a child when there are "heads" on both sides.

  • nimski, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I'm a bit surprised Homeland Security or 9/11 isn't displayed on it?!?!
  • NuclearBunny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A picture of Lincoln in High School? No Sir. I don't like it.
    Have you ever notice that NO US coins have the denomination/amount in digits on them, e.g. One Cent, Nickel, Quarter dollar, instead of 1 Cent, 5 Cents, 25 Cents.?
    • UrlorJkron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The reverse of the presidential dollar coins have "$1" on them. It is the only one I know of though.
  • buyer687, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Celebrating 146 years since the first Habeas Corpus suspension.
  • burstaneurysm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Oh man... two of the 'tails' designs have heads on them, that's gonna make flipping a coin way more confusing.
  • DivisibleByZero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3They should have done one with Evil Lincoln as well.
  • CheeseburgerBro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Those are some nice "coins" with interesting "tails" images to be "considered."
  • MerryMortician, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1After all this time.. ole honest abe is finally getting new tail.
  • Goobernutz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Lincoln logs rule!
  • damndj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2How about getting rid of the penny altogether?
  • altgeeky1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1How about abolishing the penny, in the name of sanity?
    Pennies are USELESS except for throwing at people, or smuggling to China as raw metal (though, it's a little less profitable to melt down new pennies since they're mostly zinc).

    This is just pork, and I'll bet some of the metals are imported, so it's rancid pork. Mmmm..
  • norle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hmmmm...the young, thin Lincoln or the old, fat Lincoln....decisions, decisions...
  • chesscat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Pennies are stupid and a waste of resources. We should abolish them and the nickel and round to the nearest tenth for all purchases.
  • GreedKills, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'd prefer one of him strangling Dubya
  • mseneschal, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2If they decide on a picture with Lincoln... the coin will have TWO head sides.
  • shaka776, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The other side should have had Kennedy...you know, for the conspiracy theorists and the like...
  • krisscofield, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1There should be one where he's just doing dudes. Lots and lots of dudes.
  • TrevorBradley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I like this design, I think you should consider it...

    http://www.argentina.org.au/images/un%20peso.jpg
  • Zippo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2How about putting actual numbers on your damn coins... I wonder how many tourists from overseas have come to the US, only to be confused by their coins. Not everyone speaks English *gasp*
    • zachshmack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You mean like ONE CENT, FIVE CENTS, ONE DIME, QUARTER DOLLAR?

      Sure, dime is kind of confusing, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure these things out.
  • greensuit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Another stupid waste of taxpayers money. The dollar is devaluing so fast, it will soon cost $1 to make one penny. We have seniors eating dogfood in this country, but thankfully we have some really shiny pennies. (With our wonderful Agricultiue Department, it is probably safer to eat dog food, but that's a different story)
  • boomqweeshaa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Our money may not be worth anything, but darn it, it's going to look good!
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