2025 1C Three-Piece Omega Privy Mark Cent Set, #111/232, MS65 to MS69 PCGS.
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2025 1C Three-Piece Omega Privy Mark Cent Set, #111/232, MS65 to MS69 PCGS. The set includes: 2025 24-Karat Gold, MS69 PCGS. CAC; 2025 MS65 Red PCGS; and 2025-D MS65 Red PCGS. CAC. Established by the Mint Act in 1792, and first struck for circulation in 1793, the United States cent was suspended as a circulating denomination in 2025. The decision came as the conclusion to more than a century of inflation-caused size, weight, and alloy changes done to deal with the rising cost of producing the coins. The first significant change was in 1857, when the old large cents were replaced by a copper-nickel alloy small cent. The copper-nickel alloy was then replaced by bronze in 1864, and that alloy remained in coinage (save for the 1943 steel cents to preserve copper for the war) until 1982, when the copper-based alloy of the cent was entirely removed in favor of a zinc core plated with copper to preserve the public's familiarity with the appearance of the cent. For many years, planchets for the cent were produced by a private firm outside the Mint, in order that the Mint's resources could be reserved for higher denominations. At the time of suspension, the cent was estimated to cost about 3.7 cents each coin to strike. In isolation, the denomination was a deficit on the Mint's operation, but in combination with the dime and quarter, which are produced for much less than their face value, the cent's production was perhaps less a net cost to the Mint and more part of the equation of producing a commercial monetary system. Regardless, the United States has a history of occasionally suspending or abolishing denominations, and the cent is only special in that sense in so far as it has been such a staple of the U.S. economy. Today, cents are virtually nonexistent in circulation. In an effort to pay homage to the cent, as well as to create a spectacle of its final coinage, the last Lincoln cents struck under commercial circulation premises were 232 coins from each ...
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