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This wheat design remained on the penny until 1958, when it was replaced by the Lincoln Memorial design. As a result, the Lincoln Wheat Penny has become an iconic piece of U.S. coinage history ...

The U.S. Mint produces more than 13 billion pennies each year, although the official name is the “cent” not penny.

The penny was struck at the Denver Mint in 2001 and features the usual portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the front or obverse. What it doesn’t have is the normal Lincoln Memorial on the reverse.

The Memorial Penny (1959–2008) 1959: To celebrate Lincoln’s 150th birthday, the U.S. Mint replaced the wheat stalk design with a new reverse, featuring the Lincoln Memorial.