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The penny gets first makeover in 50 years
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 | 1 comment(s)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Next year, the penny will be getting not just one new look but four of them, the first changes to the 1-cent coin in 50 years. The coin changes are part of the government’s commemoration next year of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth.
Lincoln’s profile will reman on one side of the coin but the Lincoln Memorial will be replaced on the other side by the new images.
The first new design will depict a log cabin, representing the place in Kentucky where Lincoln was born in 1809.
The second design will feature a young Lincoln taking a break from working as a rail splitter in Indiana by reading a book. Lincoln as a young lawyer standing in front of the old state capitol building in Springfield, Ill., will be the design on the third coin.
The final coin in the series will show the half-completed Capitol dome.
, evoking Lincoln’s famous order that construction of the Capitol should continue during the Civil War as a symbol that the Union would continue.
Lincoln’s profile will reman on one side of the coin but the Lincoln Memorial will be replaced on the other side by the new images.
The first new design will depict a log cabin, representing the place in Kentucky where Lincoln was born in 1809.
The second design will feature a young Lincoln taking a break from working as a rail splitter in Indiana by reading a book. Lincoln as a young lawyer standing in front of the old state capitol building in Springfield, Ill., will be the design on the third coin.
The final coin in the series will show the half-completed Capitol dome.
, evoking Lincoln’s famous order that construction of the Capitol should continue during the Civil War as a symbol that the Union would continue.
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