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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8174349, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1960&#039;s Crazy Horse Lucky Penny</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428388[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1428389[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of those three inch &quot;Lucky Penny&quot; souvenirs that I have not encountered before.</p><p>I can&#039;t find another and it does not have a date but I suspect it could be from anytime during the 1960&#039;s to 1970&#039;s. If anyone knows more please let us know.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Crazy Horse Memorial has been an ongoing project, making very slow progress since 1948.</p><p>If completed as designed, it would become the world&#039;s second tallest statue.</p><p>Government money has been turned down and it is entirely funded by those who visit and by private contributions.</p><p>Korczak Ziolkowski, Born September 6, 1908 - Died October 20, 1982 was the Polish-American designer and sculptor of the Crazy Horse Memorial. His wife took over the project after he died and his children and grandchildren are now in charge of the project.</p><p>The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain, on land considered sacred by some Oglala Lakota, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles from Mount Rushmore. It could be at least 30 to 40 years away when the sculpture is finished.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428390[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The sculpture&#039;s final dimensions are planned to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high. </p><p>The arm of Crazy Horse will be 263 feet long and his head 87 feet high. </p><p>The heads of the four U.S. Presidents at Mount Rushmore are each 60 feet high. </p><p>In 1998, the face of Crazy Horse was completed and dedicated.</p><p>Crazy Horse&#039;s eyes are 17 feet wide. The face was completed in 1998.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428391[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m always on the look-out for those little, usually scalloped inserts for the reverse. Many Lucky Pennies and Nickels had that design and those inserts fell off. I have a couple that are now generic and would like to epoxy the inserts into the areas on mine that have missing. </p><p>It is possible I can find beat up examples cheap and use those that still have the added on inserts. I think over time, the glue used to attach these deteriorated and this seems to be a common problem. Crazy Horse here still has the insert in place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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