4 Pennies Commemorate Lincoln’s Birth

The U.S. Mint on Monday unveiled four pennies commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln, with the first in the series depicting the log cabin where he was born.

The other coins will depict the self-educated Lincoln studying while working as a rail splitter in Indiana; Lincoln as a lawyer in front of the Illinois State Capitol; and the construction of the U.S. Capitol dome during Lincoln’s term as the 16th American president. – The Associated Press

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The coins, with the depictions on the reverse side and a portrait of Lincoln on the obverse side, will be released at intervals next year. The first will go into circulation Feb. 12, the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth near Hodgenville, Ky., the Mint said.

Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by actor John Wilkes Booth .

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