By Erin Carlson Mast
Lincoln enthusiasts and numismatists have something new to celebrate today. The second of four new Lincoln pennies was released this morning in Indiana, where Lincoln lived for 14 years.
For more about the Indiana boyhood Lincoln penny: http://www.14wfie.com/global/story.asp?s=10363834 and http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/lincolnredesign/index.cfm?action=lincolnPenny&Aspect=2
For more about the Lincoln bicentennial pennies, visit the U.S. Mint website.
Ms. Mast is the Curator [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Lincoln Penny’
May 15, 2009
Second of the New Lincoln Pennies Released
September 23, 2008
Lincoln Penny Designs Unveiled
By Erin Carlson Mast
The U.S. Treasury unveiled their 4 new designs for the redesigned penny. I have heard various complaints that the timing of the unveiling was in bad taste considering the current financial crisis. A friend had the great tongue-in-cheek comment, “Pennies still exist?”
Yes, pennies do still exist, and while it might not be the financial news folks are understandably clamoring for right [...]
May 19, 2008
“Kissing Lincoln” Penny?
By Erin Carlson Mast
In the Simpson’s season finale on Sunday night, Bart Simpson embarked on a new hobby: coin collecting. He quickly fills all the slots in his coin collecting book until he came to the last one, the “1917 ‘Kissing Lincolns’” cent. The show explains the “Kissing Lincoln” penny was the result of a striking error at the US mint causing two Lincoln [...]
