Wheat penny

The Lincoln Wheat Ears Cent or Wheat Penny was a United States one-cent coin produced from 1909 to 1958.

Prior to 1909, the one-cent coin featured an Indian head, but in 1909 the obverse was changed to a profile portrait of President Abraham Lincoln who was born 100 years earlier, in 1809.

In 1959, to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth, the wheat ears on the reverse of the coin were replaced with a rendering of the Lincoln Memorial.

See main article Penny (U.S. coin).