The many faces of Lincoln.

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Here is the Lincoln Medal that Victor D. Brenner made for Lincoln. He showed an example of this piece to President Theodore Roosevelt, and the Lincoln Cent got its start from there.



There are 12 images of Lincoln in the Civil War Token series. Here is the most common one.



Here an early image of Lincoln from his 1860 presidential campaign. This was the first rail splitter variety. It was issued by the Childs Company in Chicago.



Some newspapers and other print media did not get Lincoln's name right. They called him "Abram Lincoln." Here is an 1860 medalet that featured that name with the "Wade Awakes" political group symbol on the reverse. The Wade Awakes were a political club that held huge torch lit parades and rallies for Lincoln in northern cities. This piece is quite scarce. This obverse was paired with three other reverses.



Lincoln was known as "Honest Abe" before he ran for President. Here the phrase is used on an 1864 Campaign medalet.

In almost all cases you can distinguish an 1860 campaign piece from an 1864 item. Lincoln grew the beard after he was elected President.

 

For anyone interested, Stewart's #1 Proof Lincoln Set is coming up for auction on GC. If nothing else, it is worth viewing the collection. The word of the day is RED.

 

I was struck by this thought the other day. Maybe it’s just me, but the 2009 Lincoln series cents have disappeared from circulation. I took 4 Pringle cans of cents back to the bank the other day after searching them. Not one 2009.

Rick L.

 

It seemed like that program never got off the ground as a circulating coin. I thought that part of the trouble was the the economy was in deep trouble when those coins were issued. Perhaps the lack of demand for no new coins effected them. The trouble is they never seemed to circulate.

Of course the vast majority of cents in sitting rolls, jars and huge water bottles. None of them seem to really circulate. I save them in a tube and take them to the bank when I get a roll of 50.

 

Is this Civil War token a Lincoln piece? A majority of collectors say it's just an old man with a beard. The Fuld's listed the coin with the other Lincoln tokens when they arranged the Patriotic Civil War Tokens numbers.



This dies was used with a number of Civil War Token varieties, but all of them are rare.

 

Agreed. Coin production was way down in 2009 and the interesting ones (the one-off cents and quarters) disappeared quickly. I don't see much of anything dated 2009 in my pocket change.

I, too, rolled my pennies and put them in coffee cans to return to the bank. Problem is, a coffee can full of Lincolns is very heavy and I still have 2 or 3 in my closet from 20 years ago - too heavy to move, LOL! I may have to make the effort one of these days.