In keeping with Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday celebration, the US Treasury is going to have four different backings on pennies during the course of the year. Roughly every three months, a new backing will be issued with the first of a log cabin, second of Lincoln sitting on a log and reading a book, third with him standing by the old Illinois state capitol building, and fourth with the unfinished capitol building in Washington, DC. Lincoln had ordered construction of the new capitol dome to continue during the Civil war as a sign of the nation's unity.
Of interest, Lincoln's head first appeared on US pennies in 1909, the centennial of his birth. The familiar Lincoln Memorial appeared on the back in 1959, in honor of his 150th.
Sounds Like a Lincoln Thing to Me. --Old Coot
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