I used to collect pennies, and somewhere I have the old large cent penny from the early 1800’s:
Then we saw the first small penny, the flying eagle penny from 1856 to 1858:
That was superseded by the Indian Head penny from 1859 to 1909
And then we had the “Wheat Cent” penny from 1909 to 1958:
Finally the Lincoln memorial penny from 1959 to 2009:
Then this issue, only for 2009:
After a half century, the first change since the “wheat penny” went away with the new “Union Shield” penny for 2010: