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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MisterWD, post: 3309369, member: 76991&quot;]I bought an Abe Lincoln commemorative half dollar once just because Abe&#039;s image was so ugly. The coin&#039;s designer used a statue of him from when he was a judge as a model because it was more accurate than portraits of him. In truth, Lincoln was very ugly, ungainly, skinny and poorly proportioned with very large feet, hands, and ears. He realized this and sought out a professional photographer to take publicity photos of him for newspaper articles and campaign posters etc. The man was a photographic genius and posed Lincoln very carefully positioning every part of him to exactly the right position and exactly the right lighting to downplay his ungainliness. Were it not for this fellow, Lincoln would never have been elected president. It&#039;s an interesting story, look it up. To me it says never underestimate anybody. Who&#039;d have thought that a lowly photographer literally changed history?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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