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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BostonCoins, post: 2637635, member: 34720&quot;]How about these points as well:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Today&#039;s cent that everyone knows is much smaller than what George Washington saw. Today&#039;s cents are about the same size as a dime. In George&#039;s time, the cent&#039;s were the size of a half dollar! This was due to the value of copper in those days.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The Indian head cent features a figure wearing an Indian head dress. According to the designer James Longacre, the facial design was based on a statue of Venus that he saw in Philadelphia. It was on loan from the Vatican at the time. Rumors have circulated for years that the facial design was inspired by his daughter, Sarah.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The Lincoln design is the longest running design in all US coinage. Starting in 1909, the Lincoln portrait has been on the obverse of the cent for 108 years!</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Many coins from the 1700 and 1800s are often found by metal detectorists. Often, these coins have a hole drilled in them. Legend has it that people in those times would drill a hole in their coin, then make a necklace out of them. This was to help from losing these coins, where most clothes were hand made and not so sturdy back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. The initials VDB seen on today&#039;s Lincoln cents stands for the original designer of the Lincoln Cent (Victor David Brenner). When the coin design was first released, the VDB was seen on the reverse of the coin. There was much uproar about this, where people thought the designers initials didn&#039;t look good on the coin, and didn&#039;t need to be there. The initials were removed. The initials VDB were brought back to the coin in 1918 on Lincoln&#039;s shoulders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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