Hey everyone . It's Abe Lincoln's Birthday !!! Born Feb. 12th 1809 !! In honor of this great president , I've posted the Lincoln Cent , post yours as well .
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
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I have plenty of Lincoln Wheat cents, but I'd rather share something else in commemoration of President Lincoln's 212th birthday. Here's a banknote from when he first appeared on the five-dollar bill back in 1914. President Lincoln also appeared on notes such as the $500 gold certificate and the $100 legal tender note. In addition, he also appeared on three different issues of American banknotes during his lifetime.
Through elementary school I was the civil war nerd. Lincoln's life story, from rural Kentucky to a youth bookworm, to a congressman, to first republican president, to being the great emancipator himself!
Here are three Lincoln campaign items. This piece was from his 1860 presidential campaign. The die sinker didn't get his name right and called him "Abram. Lincoln." It was said that the mistake came from an early biography which had the wrong name in the title. The reverse with the all seeing eye was from the the Hartfort, Connecticut marching club, which was one of Lincoln's most ardent supporters. The obverse design is fairly common. It was used with three other reverses. When it is paired with the "all seeing eye" reverse, it's rare. "Honest old Abe" was used as a slogan in the 1864 campaign. This piece is somewhat scarce. This is a Lincoln / Johnson ferrotype from the 1864 campaign. The obverse looks like encased postage because the same tools and patents were in play. This piece is somewhat scarce. Forrotypes were photos that were printed on thin sheets of iron.
They even named cities after him: And placed his portrait on their municipal issued notes. Issued in 1862 during his presidency.
I don't have anything great to contribute, but I did manage to find all four reverse types of 2009 from circulation. And some time around 1975 working as a soda jerk in high school somebody came in and paid with this crisp new 1934 silver certificate, which I thought was odd. My grandfather was a fairly well-known Lincoln researcher, and was the librarian at the Chicago Tribune. He published several columns debunking the urban legends of the day (1940s-60s) regarding stuff Lincoln supposedly said but didn't. His concordance of everything Lincoln ever said was stored in giant cases of 3x5 cards that now reside with the University of Illinois.
