2025 1C Three-Piece Omega Privy Mark Cent Set, #177/232, MS65 to MS69 PCGS.
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2025 1C Three-Piece Omega Privy Mark Cent Set, #177/232, 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. The storied history of the United States cents began 232 years ago with the Flowing Hair large cent and had endeared itself in the hearts and pocket change of the nation until 2025. By then, the production of the cent had become fiscally counterproductive, as the cost of minting each coin exceeded its face value at 3.7¢ per coin. It was far from the first time the cent underwent significant alterations due to inflation-based rising costs of its production. In 1795, the copper weight of the cent was reduced; in 1857, the size and composition of the cent was changed to the now-familiar 19mm diameter, and a copper-nickel alloy that later became a bronze alloy; in 1982, the bronze alloy, again due to inflation costs, was replaced by copper-plated zinc. But in 2025, after nearly two decades of once again costing more than face value to produce, the cent was finally suspended as a circulating denomination. It was far from the first denomination to be suspended in U.S. coinage, but it was uniquely significant due to the enduring legacy of the cent as a staple of U.S. coinage, dating back to the Mint Act of 1792. The hard wrought decision and efforts to begin the process of the cent's discontinuation were announced February 9, 2025, with orders given to the Treasury Secretary to stop production for circulation. Despite the suspension of circulation coinage, the denomination remained legal tender, and today the Mint will still produce the denomination for special sets. Thus, the cent is not as gone as denominations that have been legislated away in the past, but rather what fades into coinage history now is the production of cents for general circulation, and it is that circulation coinage that is what the Omega coins represent the last of. The last hurrah of circulation cents was ...
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