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Abe Lincoln and the Penny

The penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, will be going away. That's a shocking reversal of government policy. Usually, the government doesn't stop producing anything that's overpriced or ...
Politifact

A penny and some thoughts: Claim about Lincoln, racism off base

Former President Abraham Lincoln has always faced to the right on the U.S. penny. Lincoln scholars say that’s because the sculptor modeled the design after a 1864 photo of Lincoln. Former U.S.
Post-Bulletin

Happy birthday, Abe — here’s a shiny new penny

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.777 — Abraham Lincoln got a present Thursday for his 200th birthday — or, technically, 319 million presents. The U.S. Mint released a redesigned penny to mark the bicentennial of ...
Business Wire

Cooper Tire Says Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday is a Good Time to Learn the “Penny Test”

FINDLAY, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 12 marks the 210 th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. America’s sixteenth president, Lincoln is memorialized on Mount Rushmore, Washington D.C.’s Lincoln ...
The Victoria Advocate

Happy birthday, Abe _ here's a shiny new penny

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Abraham Lincoln got a present Thursday for his 200th birthday — or, technically, 319 million presents.The U.S. Mint released a redesigned penny to mark the bicentennial of ...