Set report · United States · Half Cents & Cents
Lincoln Bicentennial Cents: Who Owns What
How often each Lincoln Bicentennial Cents coin actually turns up in a collection, measured by how many of the 3,550 collectors of this set have one. Coins are graded from Common to Extremely scarce against the set's most-owned coin — a measure of collecting frequency, not of how many survive.
Hardest to find in real collections
The five least-owned coins of the set — ownership counts are collector-reported.
…and the ones everybody has
Full set: ownership & rarity, coin by coin
Values by grade for each of these live on the Lincoln Bicentennial Cents catalog pages and the full price guide.
| Coin | Mintage | Collectors | % of set collectors | How often collected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 129,600,000 | 70 | 2% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009 Early Childhood | — | 2,209 | 62.2% | Common |
| 2009 Formative Years | — | 2,342 | 66% | Common |
| 2009 Presidency | — | 1,707 | 48.1% | Uncommon |
| 2009 Professional Life | — | 2,143 | 60.4% | Common |
| 2009 Early Childhood Satin (Specimen) | — | 118 | 3.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009 Formative Years Satin (Specimen) | — | 97 | 2.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009 Presidency Satin (Specimen) | — | 76 | 2.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009 Professional Life Satin (Specimen) | — | 93 | 2.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-D Early Childhood | — | 2,148 | 60.5% | Common |
| 2009-D Formative Years | — | 2,165 | 61% | Common |
| 2009-D Presidency | — | 1,896 | 53.4% | Common |
| 2009-D Professional Life | — | 2,157 | 60.8% | Common |
| 2009-D Early Childhood Satin (Specimen) | — | 118 | 3.3% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-D Formative Years Satin (Specimen) | — | 91 | 2.6% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-D Presidency Satin (Specimen) | — | 88 | 2.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-D Professional Life Satin (Specimen) | — | 95 | 2.7% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-S Early Childhood (Proof) | — | 232 | 6.5% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-S Formative Years (Proof) | — | 228 | 6.4% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-S Presidency (Proof) | — | 216 | 6.1% | Extremely scarce |
| 2009-S Professional Life (Proof) | — | 219 | 6.2% | Extremely scarce |
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Based on the share of this set's collectors who own each coin — how often it turns up in a collection, not how many survive. Not the Sheldon rarity scale.
About these numbers
Ownership counts come from the same live per-coin counters shown across the LuckyCoin catalog; set-level collector counts come from the annual full-collection scan behind The State of Coin Collecting 2026. Counts are collector-reported and aggregate-only. Scarcity tiers come from 100 × (1 − owners ÷ owners of the set's most-owned coin): Common under 25, Uncommon 25–49, Scarce 50–74, Very scarce 75–89, Extremely scarce 90+. This reflects how often a coin is collected, not its surviving population — it is not the Sheldon rarity scale. CC BY 4.0 with attribution.