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When Don Lutes Jr. was just 16 years old, he discovered a rare Lincoln penny among his lunch money change while getting food at his Massachusetts high school back in 1947.
Continental currency 1/3-dollar note (obverse), with the inscriptions "Fugio" and "Mind your business".. On April 21, 1787, the Congress of the Confederation of the United States authorized a design for an official copper penny, [3] later referred to as the Fugio cent because of its image of the Sun and its light shining down on a sundial with the caption, "Fugio" (Latin: I flee/fly, referring ...
Another 1909 Lincoln penny, also inked by Brenner, sold at an auction by Great Collections in 2022 for $365,000. In that same auction, four other pennies from 1909 and 1915 each cost more than ...
"The Penny Profile". Berger was the manager of Mathew Brady's Gallery when he took multiple photographs at this Tuesday sitting. In 1909 Victor David Brenner used this image and one other similar image from this sitting to model the Lincoln cent. [127] February 9, 1864 Washington D.C. Tintype: Library of Congress
Penny Penates postcard front face painting. The Penny Penates is a postcard made of paper. The front features a hand-drawn colour illustration showing a gathering of caricatured postal clerks with huge pens seated around an enlarged inkwell marked "Official." To the left and right of the inkwell appear the words "Penny" and "Penates", respectively.
The first official mintage of the large cent was in 1793, and its production continued until 1857, when it was officially replaced by the modern-size one-cent coin (commonly called the penny). Large cents were made of nearly pure copper , or copper as pure as it emerged from smelting , without any deliberate addition of other metals (such as ...
A Pennsylvania woman who recently celebrated her 114th birthday is being recognized as the oldest living person in North America — and credits her very long life to abstaining from everyday vices.
1 penny obverse 1936–1937 3 pence obverse Elizabeth II: 1926-2022 Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-2022) Pound 1 ⁄ 2 penny obverse 1953–1969 1 penny obverse 3 pence obverse 6 pence obverse 12 pence (1/- or 1 shilling) obverse 120 pence (10/- or 10 shillings) obverse £1 obverse £5 obverse George V: 1865–1936