Teddy Roosevelt had a good idea when he decided there should be a coin honoring the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Just as good were his choices of the denomination to be used and the sculptor to design it, Victor D. Brenner...
The Lincoln cent proved to be so popular, and the portrait so moving, that the obverse is still going strong a century after its introduction. Instead of the original wheat ears reverse or the Lincoln Memorial design that replaced it in 1959, there are new reverse designs marking the centennial of the Lincoln cent and the Lincoln Bicentennial...
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