Final Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent

Yesterday The United States Mint launched the fourth and final 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent coin. A ceremony was held at the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial which is below the west front of the U.S Capitol Building. The reverse of the coin depicts a partially built U.S. Capitol dome. United States Mint Director Ed Moy said, "The image of an incomplete U.S. Capitol symbolizes the unfinished business of a nation torn apart by slavery and the Civil War." The familiar portrait of President Lincoln by sculptor Victor Brenner will grace the obverse of the coin. The inscriptions on the obverse read: IN GOD WE TRUST, LIBERTY and 2009. This year has now seen the launch of four One-Cent coins with reverse designs honouring the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth and the centennial of the first issuance of the Lincoln Cent.