But before tossing your Lincoln pennies into a coin jar that will one day be dumped into a Coinstar machine, take the time to look at them — even those minted between 2009 and 2023. Find Out ...

and some based on my service as co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in 2009 — the year the Lincoln penny itself reached the age of 100. “Away back in my childhood,” to ...