A Penny from Heaven
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
The world’s most reproduced work of art lies in gutters everywhere: Victor David Brenner’s portrait of President Lincoln, stamped on each 1-cent piece. First issued in 1909 after President Roosevelt forced it on the U.S. Mint, it is America’s oldest circulating coin design.
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