Is 2008 The End Of The Line?

I'll miss the Memorial reverse too, but I imagine Shield cents will be with us for years to come. Unfortunately.

Dansco includes 8 slots for 2009 in the current version of the #7100. It's a nice book because it has the whole history going back more than a century. The first four pages are all wheat cents, with just three unlabeled slots to spare on the fourth page. The next four pages are labeled "Lincoln Memorial Cents" but the last page starts with 2007, so it doesn't work out close to evenly like the wheats.

If they keep minting cents, I hope they hold out exactly until 2021 so my album can look finished. Maybe they'll keep making them NIFC for a long period of time like they do with half dollars. If not, I hope Dansco comes out with a nicer last page that showcases the bicentennial cents and doesn't have all those empty slots.

Dansco makes a replacement page as well. It starts in 2008, has 12 slots for the 2009 (P,D,S), and ends with a 2016-D.

The only problem is, with the way they are just randomly changing the reverse of coins, on a whim, do you wait until the page would be full before you buy it?

While we all know jbuck has a demented, evil, loathing of the poor little Lincoln cents, we all still love him like a brother on this forum anyway.

I agree with your dilemma about the pages. I know Whitman makes some sort of "press on(?)" letters that you can make the rest of a blank page look just like the printed area. I assume Dansco does the same so it might not really matter.

BTW - although I wholeheartedly disagree with Jbuck on getting rid of the cent ... But I also admit he has the more logical stand on it and is likely correct about the issue.

I just happen to like them enough that I do not want to see them disappear as a part of our everyday culture. Mine is a very weak argument indeed based on nothing but 49 years of sentimentalism where I associate pennies with my grandfather - the one who got me stated in coin collecting. He always, let us kids put the pennies in the big "penny bank." He did that with us for years.

I also like the looks of the shield and am hoping it inspires artists to go back to more classic looking coins. Again - weak argument and not cost effective!

I got the update page for my Dansco a couple months ago to put all the shiny new 2007 and 2008 and Lincoln Bicentennials and Shield cents that I had acquired into, and it looks great. Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for Intercept Shield to come out with the new Lincoln album beginning with 2008. Lemme see, it's now 2012 and they still haven't done it......

Steve

I doubt they will, but I would like to see a shield cent Dansco. I have my Lincoln Memorial cent dansco filled up and I don't really want to fill the rest of the holes with shield cents (afterall it is a Lincoln memorial album). I don't have many wheats so I don't use the Dansco 7100 lincoln album either. It seems like it would be simple to re-label a new shield cent dansco, not to mention the extra money they would make off collectors buying it.

That is a nice short type set. Do you have some space to add some wheat cents too?

Makes sense since the losses on production vs face would be tiny, and made up for by the premium charged for sets.