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Everyday · United States
1984 Lincoln cent
A copper-colored 1984 cent with Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Memorial. Try a familiar one-cent design with two clearly different sides.
Flip this coin →Free to flip. Two sides. Equal chances.
The story behind the coin
Lincoln faces right on this 1984 one-cent coin. Its reverse shows the Lincoln Memorial, framed by UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and ONE CENT. The pair of photographs documents both sides of the 1984 coin, so the date and reverse design stay matched. The copper-colored surface is retained from the source photographs.
Which side is heads?
- Heads
- Abraham Lincoln facing right, LIBERTY and the date 1984.
- Tails
- The Lincoln Memorial beneath E PLURIBUS UNUM, with ONE CENT below.
A different coin. The same fair toss.
The artwork changes, but every virtual toss still has a 50/50 chance of heads or tails. We simulate the movement; the result is chosen independently. This is not a simulation of the physical balance of a historical coin.
Photographs by Slashme, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; the adapted images remain available under CC BY-SA 3.0. Image license ↗ View source record ↗