2009 Lincoln From Circulation

People just can't seem to wait, or think they will be low mintages.

From the US Mint web site Jan-Feb 2009 mintages:

Cent
Philly- 342 Million
Denver- 194 Million

These are NOT low mintages for any coin, though if this is all they make of the 1st design, it would seem to be low by historical standards for the cent. You figure they make 1 billion cents (or more) each year and they need to divide that by 2 mint marks and four designs= 125 million of each design and mint mark. Numbers above are way above that mark. These will be "commons". It looks like they are heading towards 2 billion or more of these Lincoln cents.

Way more than than that, 2008 had a total mintage of 5.4 billion and 2007 had a mintage of 7.4 billion so the 2009s are on pace to have 1/3-1/2 the numbers of recent mintages.

You have those flipped around, the P cent is the lower mintage.

I found 3 shiny new 2009-D cents while coin roll hunting!