the Lincoln Cent was released into circulation: http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten..._100.ART_ART_08-02-09_A5_N8ELCDS.html?sid=101 If anybody can answer David's question this Coin Nerd would love to read the reply.
I started to read that article and burst out laughing. How many times do you hear someone start ranting and raving about our Cent being called a Penny. And that article starts right out calling them PENNIES. It's about time we put PENNIES on that coin.
Ok, perhaps I'm missing something, or I'm just totally lame, but: (1) Who is David? (2) What's the question? and (3) I see no problem calling this coin a "Penny" (says The Penny Lady)! However, I do have to admit to once in a while hearing some old geezer, or even some nerdy young guy who thinks he's so smart because he knows the "penny" is really an English coin and the cent is American, chastise me and telling me "they are not pennies, they are CENTS"! Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know - of course I know! :headbang: I smile kindly cause they want me to know how smart they are, and say to them, "Hey, so you think I should call myself The Cent Lady?" End of discussion......
RE: David and where is the question? At the bottom of the article there is a comments box and a link to the forum via the "Read all 9 comments" line. Or is there? Any way, in the forum David asks "Can someone tell me the significance of why Lincoln on the penny is the only profile on any coin looking that way. If you look, you will notice that the profiles on the nickel, dime, and quarter are looking the other way." My reply is based on something I read once but have no proof that it is true. I had hoped someone who knew might post to the comment. Sorry for the confusion!
The significance is that was the way Lincoln was facing on the Brenner plaque the cent design was based on, and on the photograph the Brenner plaque was based on. The fact that the rest face left is chance. In the case of the Jeffereson and Washington coins, they had to be based on the Houdon busts and they were best viewed with them facing left. The dime and half dollar were based on the inaugeral medals and the bust on those faced left. So basically the bust on the coin faced the same way the model it was based on faced.
ha ha ha, oh geese Crusty, even you? Very creative.... I have to say that I actually wasn't the one who thought of "The Penny Lady," it was my customers. They would walk by and say, "Hey, you're that penny lady," or introduce me to their spouse as "she's the penny lady," etc. So it just sort of evolved, and I changed my company name from "CoinCents" to "The Penny Lady." Makes more cents, huh! (and I don't actually make them, I just sell them! )
