Hang onto your hats! For the first time in 50 years, there’s gonna be a change to the humble penny. For the whole next year, a new reverse (back) to the old Lincoln penny will be introduced every three months. It’s all being done in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln was 100 years old, he got a penny in his honor (1909). Fifty years later, the back of the cent was changed to show the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Now in 2009, the first of the four new coins will show a rendering of the log cabin in which he was born. Since that cabin is gone (logs rot and taste good to termites), they used the old Shipp Cabin at our ranch as their model. They didn’t get it quite right, but it’s close enough for government work.
Monday, February 16
New pennies coming!
Hang onto your hats! For the first time in 50 years, there’s gonna be a change to the humble penny. For the whole next year, a new reverse (back) to the old Lincoln penny will be introduced every three months. It’s all being done in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln was 100 years old, he got a penny in his honor (1909). Fifty years later, the back of the cent was changed to show the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Now in 2009, the first of the four new coins will show a rendering of the log cabin in which he was born. Since that cabin is gone (logs rot and taste good to termites), they used the old Shipp Cabin at our ranch as their model. They didn’t get it quite right, but it’s close enough for government work.
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4 comments:
I'm simply gobsmacked.
It's a nice coin too.
I guess that beats being mob whacked.
the new penny release makes me wonder, with inflation and all, is a penny still worth a penny?
When I checked recently, 100 pennies will get you a dollar, so I think the proper question to ask is—is a dollar still worth a dollar?
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