Coming soon to a cash register near you – a smiling Thomas Jefferson looking straight at you from a new nickel that will end nearly a century of tradition for U.S. coins.

The Mint plans to begin shipping 80 million of the new five-cent coins today to the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. They will be the first of an estimated 1 billion new nickels to be put into circulation during the next year.

Since 1909 when Abraham Lincoln became the first president depicted on a circulating coin, all the presidential images have been in profile.

But the new nickel has an image of Jefferson taken from a 1800 Rembrandt Peale portrait in which the president is looking forward.