Presidential $1 Coin Program - Other Provisions

Other Provisions

The act also has two other provisions, for:

• Issuance of a $50 bullion coin reproducing the 1913 Buffalo nickel designed by James Earle Fraser. See American Buffalo (coin)
• Redesign of the reverse of the Lincoln cent in 2009 to show four different scenes from Abraham Lincoln's life in honor of the bicentennial of his birth. These four scenes include:
  1. his birth and early childhood in Kentucky;
  2. his formative years in Indiana;
  3. his professional life in Illinois; and
  4. his presidency in Washington, D.C.

In 2009, numismatic cents which have the metallic copper content of cents minted in 1909 were issued for collectors.

Further information: Penny (United States coin)#The 2009 Lincoln Pennies

After 2009, another redesigned reverse for the Lincoln cent will be minted; this "shall bear an image emblematic of President Lincoln's preservation of the United States of America as a single and united country," and will replace the Lincoln Memorial reverse in use from 1959 to 2008.

Further information: Penny (United States coin)#Union shield penny (2010–present)